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Show BOY SHOT IN HEAD RECOVERS Physician Attending Rockhill Boy Says Recovery I Seems Assured SPANISH FORK, Nov. 24 Allen Rockhill, aged 10, sou of Mrs. A. B. Iitickhill, is today pronounced out of danger from an injury which was at first believed almost necessarily neces-sarily fatal. While playing with a boy friend of the same age, the son of Mrs. Bessie Warren, a 2;"5-calihre revolver was discharged, the bullet IMnetrating the frontal part of the little liockhill hoy's skull, passing through one lobe of the brain and making its exit from the head after traveling a distance of six inches through the front part of the skull. The little boy had returned home from school and finding his mother absent, had gone to the home of the Warren boy. The latter had scouted in a trunk which happened to be unlocked and found the revolver. They were evidently going hunting, as they were some little distance from the house when the weapon was discharged, striking the Rock-hill Rock-hill lad in the left temple. He fell to the ground and his playmate called call-ed for help. James Finch was passing and carried car-ried the injured lad to the office of Dr. J. W. Hagan. where the injury in-jury was dressed. . Dr. Hagan was very hopeful for the lad's recovery from the time of the injury, as the wound was from a steel bullet and was a clean-cut one. The little fellow has s i ; f f e r e d much pain, but his complete recovery recov-ery seems assured. He lias been at Ihe home of his mother since the injury and has had a trained nurse. Mrs. Rockhill. it will be remembered, remem-bered, is the widow of A. B. Rock- 1 hill, who was killed in an automobile automo-bile wreck on Memorial day nine years ago. In the same wreck, a son, Milton, was also killed and Mrs. Rockhill was painfully injured. injur-ed. Mrs. RockhilL was also sliirht.ly injured in an automobile collision about a month ago. Because of the se'rious accident to her brother. Miss Lois Rockhill, who is a student at the B. Y. V., has been at home this week and Miss Mary Rockhill came home from Salt Lake for the same reason. Miss Krmn Rockhill. another sister, is spending the winter in Paris, France. |