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- He was killed in an accident with a streetcar. (“Shocking Tragedy on St. Charles Avenue. Napoleon Avenue Car Kills a Nine-year-Old Boy Instantly, and Seriously Injures an Aged adn Respected Citizen,” Times-Picayune, 10 Feb. 1900, p8. His father in the article is described as a newspaper reporter from Scranton, Mississippi.
See notes under his grandfather Brisbane Turnbull.
A law suit followed; see “United States Circuit Court: Big Damage Suit for Death of a Child,” Times-Picayune, 10 Oct. 1900, p3. This article names his mother, Margaret White, and gives the boy’s age as 8. Also, “The Courts . . . The Trial of the Turnbull Damage Suit,” Times-Picayune 22 Nov. 1900, p14).
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