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Show HENRY CAMPE'S SEVEN-SHOOTER, j The Boy and tbe Pistol and the ITsnal Besnlt. Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock the household of Mr. John H. Campe, chief draughtsman in the U. S. Surveyor-General's office, was thrown into distressing excitement by the loud report of a revolver revol-ver in the kitchen the family being in other parts of the houses and upon rushing rush-ing to the room the terror-stricken mother found her son Henry, a boy between 12 and 13 years old, with & small revolver in his hand, loudly protesting that nobody no-body was hurt. The pistol, which is a seven-shooter, contained six cartridges, only one chamber being empty, and it seemed for a time that every effort to ascertain as-certain where the missing bullet had lodged would be in vain. The boy insisted, in-sisted, with pluck which subsequent facts showed to be extraordinary, that the ball had been fired into the floor, but was unable un-able to point out to the distracted mother any evidence to substantiate his statement. state-ment. . Mrs. Campe from the first was thoroughly thor-oughly overcome by the feeling that her boy had himself received the shot, and her suspicious and distress increased as their search failed to reveal where the ball had struck. Henry, after persistently persist-ently endeavoring to divert the attention of those present from the real fact, finally acknowledged having received the bullet in his right leg, and his father and the doctor were at once summoned. Dr. Beattie, who reached the house, which is in Franklin Avenue, about an hour afterwards, after-wards, found that the. bullet had entered the fleshy part of the right leg, some seven inches above the knee, and followed the bone downward, lodging in the knee joint in a most remarkable position. The removal of the ball failed to reveal the exact condition of the fracture of the bone, if indeed there be a fracture, and the doctor gave it as his opinion that it might be several days before the fact can be learned. The boy, whose characteristic mis-chievousness mis-chievousness on two former occasions has nearly caused his death, had been known to have a pistol for some time past, claiming claim-ing that it was necessary as a means of protection at night, but Mr. Campe, who is an exceedingly indulgent father, allowed al-lowed his son to "retain it on condition that the cartridges were given up, which they were. Some new cartridges had evidently been procured by the boy, who, when the accident occurred, was in the act of withdrawing the cylinder, to do which it was necessary to raise the trigger. trig-ger. He was in a sitting position at the time and might have rendered the shot fatal by the slightest movement. Mr. Campe and his wife are greatly distressed over the affair, and while exceedingly apprehensive ap-prehensive in regard to what the wound may develop, feel very grateful that it was no worse, realizing fully what the possibilities were. The boy is resting easily and will not experience, it is thought, any very acute suffering until to-morrow. |