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Show WITH A BULLET. WAYNE HEMPHILL RECEIVES THE CONTENTS CON-TENTS OF A RIFLE At the Hands of Charles Sampson The Tragic Culmination of nn Afternoon's Spurt Anions; the Local Foothills. Particulars of an accidental shooting that appears exclusively in the coliiinns col-iiinns of The Times, were brought to light this morning by friends of the principals, and furnish a bloody admonition ad-monition to the youth who is permitted to handle lire-arms ere he is capable of understanding the danger that lurks within their treacherous chambers. Charlie Sampson, a boy of 11 years, had been out gunning last evening with a rifle of 22-calibre for the wary Denizens of the 8age Brush and foothills and was returning with the trophies of one afternoou sport when ho was joined by Wayne Hemphill Hemp-hill another youth of eleven years and Johnnio Bowers. The weapon has long been the envy of his companions and when they met all sought an opportunity op-portunity to inspect it. Charlie who was now ripening into a fearless rille-man rille-man permitted the weapon to drop barrel downward. There was a sharp report, A Sharp Shriek, and young Hemphill swooned to the ground in terriblo pain while the blood belched from a ghastly hole in his foot above the instep. Pedestrians who were made witnesses to the atl'air took up the boy and bore him to the residence resi-dence of his parents at 401 South First street to which place Dr. Douglass was summoned who proled the orifice and extracted the ball. The sufferer is doing nicely and is bearing his misfortune bravely, but there is a siege of long and painful confinement beforo him. To aggravate tho distress of the mother Mr. Hemphill, the father of Wayne, has been contined to his apart-mouts apart-mouts for some time from injuries sustained sus-tained while getting off a car. |