Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-18 | Page 11 | Young Johnson is Removed to Home

YOUNG JOHNSON. IS REMOVE TO HOME i Officers Probing Shooting Mystery : Think His Injuries Were Self-Inflicted. Howard Johnson, i:!-year-old son of lames Johnson, 1062 Wilson avenue, was removed' to his home yesterday from the Holy Cross hospital, where he has been wince March S, suffering from a bullet wound in t he chest, it Is said. He will probably recover. According to juvenile court officers who yesterday completed an investigation, the wound was probably self-in flirted, al-' al-' K V lll0WKn "ie jy tiaims that his sister ,'i VJred the shot while they and two ehll-"Vn ehll-"Vn belonging to a neighboring family wjie playing- with a .22-caliher pistol in the absence of the adult membera of the Johnson family. Why the boy claimed his sialer shot him has not been determined, deter-mined, according to James Oswald, juvenile juve-nile officer, who states that the stories of the four children conflict in some respects. re-spects. Just what action the court will take in the matter of the shooting will not be decided until the Johnson boy lias fully recovered from his injuries, which were at first thought lu be fatal.