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Show Los Angeles Pitcher Shoots and Kills Hunter by Mistake "POLL" PERRITT. y EXTURA, Cal., Dec. 23. Herbert Lathrop, a well-known mountaineer, hunter and guide of the Ojui district, was shot last night by Floyd 1'erritt, a pitcher on the I-os Angeles team of the Coast baseball league, who was hunting mountain moun-tain lions. Lathrop died early today. Perritt mistook Lathrop for a mountain lion and fired a high-power rifle bullet into his abdomen. Perritt had been camping camp-ing near Lathrop's place since the 'baseball 'base-ball season closed. |