Show ATTEMPT AT A young man mail attempts to centre the tile heart with a rifle hall ball andrew is a young man inan about 21 or 22 years of age whose residence is at logan he was married about a year since and was expecting in a short period to become a father for sometime somo time past he lie has been at work getting out railroad ties at crowthers crowt ors Campin camp in logan cagon about t thirty ir miles from this city F for or several days during the past week his countenance lias worn a it melancholy appearance and on sunday the th insap he seemed very much de depressed in the afternoon he mod asked ills his brother in law a young boy named charles jacobson Jaco baon to procure him a gun as he lie desired to go hunting the gun was obtained and loaded but as had bad been drinking young jacobson ook took the gun outside the door discharged it got two cartridges desp loaded the gun un pointed ho the muzzle plumb io to the heart placed thumb on the trigger but before it was pulled the boy seeing kes intention knocked the gun a little on one side just as the weapon was discharged the ball entered the body about one and three fourth inches to the right of the tile heart near the stomach and came out through the lower lobe of the left lung inflicting indicting indic ting a dangerous wound dr D B lamoreaux of logan was sent for who dressed the wound md and did all he then could for the who was placed in inn a vehicle md and under proper escort is now eit en route oute for his home in this place he s doing as well as could be expected the circumstances but the lector doctor cannot say at present what the result of the rash act will be the young man is reticent in regard to the cause cause which led him to to take his own life H LOGAN june 1881 |