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Show MILFORD CHILD SHOT WITH RIFLE BY BROTHER Little Linda .Fowlcs, 3 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Kowles, is home from the hospital and her big brother, broth-er, 5 year old Terry, is happy to be playing with her again and sorry that he was the cause of her absence. Last Thursday evening, Terry shot Linda in the leg with his daddy's .300 Savage deer rifle. The g'rl was playing in the living room of their home on 100 West street, when Terry found some old shells in a nail sack under the kitchen sink. He wentto the bedroom where Mr. Fowles kept the rifle, slipped the shell into the chamber, and playing "Davy Crockett' discharged dis-charged the rifle, and the heavy slug entered Linda's right thigh midway between the hip and knee. It was only a flesh wound, and didn't harm any muscles or bone, but Linda spent several days' in the hospital with her leg in a cast after an operation to stretch the skin and close the wound without skin grafting graft-ing ' |