Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-13 | Page 3 | Children Fall from Gunshot

CHILDREN FALL FROM GUNSHOT Little Girl Shoots Down Playmates. Brother and Companion Are Wounded by Pitiful Accident. Only a Childish Quarrel Led to Iragic Results; Victims Will Die. Special to Th Tribune LOS ANGELES. Cal . June 12. Lying side b side on a single stretcher In a patrol wagon, which dashed through the-streets the-streets with all the speed which two fast horses could exert, Raymond Coin, ageel 14, and Mabel Cooper, aged 11, torn, bleeding bleed-ing and probably dying, were rushed to the Receiving hospital this afternoon. Their faces anel heads had been riddled by a charge of shot tired at close range by Claudlne Coin, the 12-year-old sister of the boy. The boy's right eye had been shot nut. a section of his skull i arrled away and several shot had penetrated the brain. Skull Torn Away. The Rlrl was alo terribly wotinileel, a large section of her skull having been t rn fnun her head and half a dozen of the shot had penetrated the skull and fr.ee. That either is alive amazes the surgeons sur-geons who attended lh m They are now in the- Children s hospital with extremely r mote chances of recovery. The Coin chllelr-n are motherless; and hv. with their falhM-. A R. Coin, a' 78) Temple street. Claudlne. who did the BhCOtlng, taking the part of littl mother" to her brother and younger sister. sis-ter. How Trngedy Occurred. Half h dozm children assembled In the parlor of tho Coin residence this afternoon after-noon to hear a me-chanlcal piano, nnd Raymond Coin teastngl) remarked Mabel Cooper, "I 11 kiss vou ' His sister heard him and laughingly replied. "If vein do, I'll shoot you." and at the sam.-inejment sam.-inejment ran into an adjoining room and reappeared wilh her fathei'' shot-gun The gun was too heavy for her. but she managed to half raise It. Thinking l was got loaded, she pulled the trigger Instantly there was a deafening report, and the recoil knocked thfc girl down, but her aim had been deadly Weltering in Blood. When neighbors, attracted by the report and screams pf the children, rushed In they found the bov and glr! on the floor weltering In their own blood. M -lb il aid Was summoned, hut the surgeon s aid will be probably futile. Miss Cooper Is a daughter of Mrs. Klor-. Klor-. nee I Cooper of 2SC14 OlSSSell street. Her father, the late John F. t'exiper. was for years prominent in Los Angeles.