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Show PISTOLS WOUND 2 GIRLSJNSrLr Hera's another add to ths long story of ths gun that went off accidentally ac-cidentally with serious results. Mary Slants, 14. daughter of Major Ma-jor R. A. D. Slants of Fort Douglas, was shot In the right ankle late Tuesday by ber 15-year-old chum. Barbara Allen; of Worth WotrotT avenue. The accident happened In an upstairs up-stairs room of ths Stanis horns at I North Wolcott avsnue. where Barbara had picked up a .32-auto-malus pistol belonging to Major Slants. At th fort hospital, where Mary was treated for a flesh wound, she aid she had warned Barbara that the gun was loaded, and to point It only at ths ceiling. It exploded as she was examining the mechanism mechan-ism "to see how such a gun works." Victim of another accidental shooting, 0-year-old Gladys Anita Hudson departed Tuesday night for Seattle with her mother, her 11-year-old brother, Glen, and other member of a motor party from Denver. When their car stalled in Parley's canyon, Anita and her mother. Mrs. Fern Hudson, went to sleep while th driver, Raymond A. Rugtwet, went "for aid. . Ulen remained re-mained awake to play with a pistol, and accidentally pulled the trigger. The bullet Inflicted a slight flesh wound In his sister's forearm. She I as treated at the general honpflal. |