| Show A NARROW ESCAPE an alm of t ahe tb danger dancer al AF bowing to hadu fire alki WARD SALT city march wa 1887 editor deseret news I 1 on OB account of a very narrow isadrow escape which my little children had this morning from the accidental discharge of a loaded leaded pistol I 1 feel impelled to put a word in your valuable paper concern ig IBS the very prevalent and careless use of such deadly i instruments in the hands of school boys my own children are not allowed to have such things but their fellow schoolmates school mates carry and lend them yesterday afternoon my little boy bay had one loaned him at school brought it home labome unknown to me and smuggled it into inco his bis bedroom this morning before any of us were up and the chi children ff tumbling about in their night clot clothes heso I 1 heard a loud pistol report come from fram the direction of their room U upon pon inquiring I 1 ascertained they had bad b beba el playing since daylight with this borrowed weapon and that it had accidentally ci gone one off in their midst three of them ve the bullet ranged upward and went through a large window making a nice clean orifice throngs it tike the size ota ofa fifty cent piece and aad sup aup desembly found lodgment somewhere E 11 my next door garden now I 1 ask where in esthe the rowdy remedy for such terrible boys must munk be boys yoa you know and shoud sheala not parents see their sons do no carry about in their pockets these weapons of destruction st my children inform we me that it is a common thing tor for ve very mt young ang u blysto boys to have pistols pistols at school they hey keep them coaxed loaded and play with tham at their desks 2 during school hours the pistol I 1 su have bave it in my charge 1 I believe will hold seven bullets wd aid yet contains two which have not been discharged respectfully ax alt ANXIOUS MOT ISERi |
