STACKPOLE

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 04:42:27 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, January 7, 1915
Page 5

Youth Electrocuted By Current Of 2,200 Volts

Before the eyes of this father and a dozen workmen Morris Leslie Stackpole, a nineteen-year-old boy, met instant death last Saturday at Kentfield by electrocution.

F L. Stackpole, the father, had secured a contract to build two bridges across the state highway at Kentfield. The boy was one of the workmen employed on the job. The accident occurred when he started to swing the bridge derrick by means of a heavy cable which came in contact with the high voltage wires strung above. A current of 2,200 volts passed through the cable and killed the boy instantly.

The body was removed immediately to the morgue, where the necessary legal formalities were observed, and then shipped to the Stackpole home in Sacramento. The boy had been working in this county about one month.