Roy Cecil Vanhoose

Death by Force

In the small town of Paintsville, Kentucky, a dispute between two young boys over a piece of scrap metal escalated into a tragic event on May 18, 1929. Eight-year-old Roy Cecil Vanhoose and six-year-old Carl Newton Mahan, were friends and playmates. On that fateful day, they were gathering scrap iron to sell, a common activity for children in the area to earn a little spending money. An argument erupted when the older boy, Cecil, reportedly took a piece of iron that Carl had found.

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