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Show JOSEPH YOUNG KILLED Fatal Ending: of the Kab-bit Kab-bit Hunt. Joseph Young of Fairview was fatally wounded near Mt. Pleasant last Wednesday afternoon by receiving re-ceiving a charge of shot from a gun in the hands of a young friend, Ferman Brady, also of Fairview, in one of his lower limbs. The deed was purely accidental. The accident occurred during the progress of the Gunnison and Mt. Pleasant rabbit hunt. Brady had been loading his gun, a breechloader, breech-loader, and in closing it one of the needles struck the cap of a cartridge cart-ridge and it was discharged, Young receiving the entire charge of shot squarely in the leg between the knee and thigh, shattering the bone badly, lie was taken immediately to the city to the homo of a relative rela-tive and a physician summoned, livery care was given him but the severe shock and excessive hemorrhage hemor-rhage proved more than ho could stand and at 0110 o'clock the next morninrr ho died. The funeral took place from the family residence at Fairview on Monday. Deceased leaves a wife and four young children. No blame attaches to the young man who held the gun when it was discharged. Pyramid. |