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Show Five-Year-Old 'Boy Wonderfolly Brave Bears Death Wound Like a Stoic, Fearing to Tell His Mother. PORTLAND, Or., July 6. Ernest, the little five-year-old son of Frederick Vogt, who lives at Monta Villa, a suburb sub-urb of Portland, found an old rusty revolver re-volver and shot himself In the abdomen abdo-men July -1. The little fellow, Ignorant of the peril of his wound, and afraid to tell his mother, wandered about the house for hours strangely sick, but silent. si-lent. When his mother was putting the boy to bed she noticed the burned spot in his clothes and what appeared to be merely the scratch of a sharp stick bee neath, but considered lt unworthy of serious attention. Even later when the seriousness of the little fellow's Illness compelled the attention of a physician, the true nature of hisj sickness was not guessed and he died. Four hours afterward an examination examina-tion of the supposedly harmless abrasion abra-sion was made and a bullet was found In the Intestines. |