Wants God To Let Him Live a Few More Days

1902

WANTS GOD TO LET HIM LIVE.

GREENWICH, Conn., June 28.— Chester Menenndez, 6 years old, son of Jose Menenndez, of New York, was badly injured to-day while playing with gunpowder, and may lose his eyesight. He found some powder which his older brother had purchased for July 4, and, placing it in a tin can, set fire to it. After the explosion his face, hands and arms resembled those of a colored person. Several physicians have been working over him. The little fellow said after the accident: "I hope God won't let me die before the Fourth."

—The Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN, June 28, 1902, p. 5.