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Show I Boy Shot In Breast I With Target Rifle Slx.Voar.Old Mel llrovvu Crlrs, ".Ua in ma 1 Am Shot," as He Staggers Stag-gers Into Ills Mollior's Anns Ac-clileiil, Ac-clileiil, 1'iirel) Acclilcnliil. Wedncsilay about .'1 o'clock nlel, the little Rl-eor-old son of Mr and MrB Michael Drown, gave a piercing cry, and as its mother ran to Its assist-nice assist-nice the little fellow, staggeilng toward to-ward her, said he was shot. She carried car-ried tho little fellow In the house nud .i hurried examination revealed a bullet bul-let had entered the right breast. A doctor was scut for nud at first It was thought that the leaden missle had entered the lung. Tho lad, while watching some boys shooting a tnr-get tnr-get gun, thu day beforo, had been Informed that a bullet would kill If It hit him This thought In his mind, added with the actual shock, made the boy think that tho case was more serious than It rcolly vvns. Tho doctor after a thorough examination decided that though the bullet Is still In tho flesh It vvns not necessarily dangerouB. The boy rested well Wednesday Wed-nesday night ami luckily will suffer no serious results. From tho best Information It appears ap-pears Hint the lad was coining from tho corral to the houso when he was shot, Indicating that tho bullet came from the cast. City Marshal John S. KvniiB made an Investigation nud found that tho cuso was purely accidental. ac-cidental. About the time thu boy was shot, two of tho neighbor's boys wero practicing with n target rlfrio in the yard of Thomas Itusson, nbout 25 or 30 rods away. Ono of them was suro that his shots did not go in tho direction di-rection of tho Drown home, but tho otlior boy admitted that a bullet, intended in-tended for a bird, might havo reached tho Drown boy. Only recently n riffle shot was Imbcded lti the shanty at Jumos Peterson's Pet-erson's homo, but two feet from whore Mrs. Peterson was entering tho door, and many other Instances of reckless shooting by boys aro reported. Tho officers think that tho Drown Incident will bo sufficient to stop tho practice otherwise there will bo somo caBes for tho courts. |