Headlines: " 'I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO IT' YOUTH TELLS OFFICERS AFTER FATAL SHOOTING."
Byline: "By Edgar Allen Poe."
Story: "A Birmingham-Southern College student was shot and fatally wounded shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday night in an altercation at the Highland Pharmacy, located at 1000 South Twenty-Sixth Street.
"The student died en route to St. Vincent's hospital. . . .
"The dead man is Montress Freeman, of Gadsden.
"O. H. Westbrook, a junior at Howard College, called police after the shooting and surrendered. . . ."
Thus wrote Rewrite Man Edgar Allen Poe in the Birmingham Age-Herald...