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Show Boy Shot In Breast Willi Target Rifle SU. Year-Old Mel llrown CrJon, ".Uamiiin I Am Shnl," ns He Hluir gers Into UN arotlicrN Arms--A, cldent, Purely Aceidqnlnl. WedncBday nbout 3 o'clock nlel, tho Httlo six-year-old non of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Drown, gave a piercing cry, nnd na its mother ran to its assistance assist-ance the Httlo fellow, staggering toward to-ward hor, said ho was shot. Sho carried car-ried the Httlo follow in tho house and hurried examination revealed n bullet bul-let had entered tho right breast. A Jodor was sent for nnd nt first It was thought that the leaden mln3lo had entered tho lung. Tho lad, whllo watching some hoys shooting a target tar-get gun, the dny before, hod boon Informed that n bullt' would kill If It hit him. This thought In his mind, added with tho actual shock) made the boy think that tho enso was moio serious than It icnlly wns. Tho doctor after a thorough examination decided thnt though tho bullot is stlli in tlio flesh It was not necessarily dangerous. Tho hoy rested woll Wednesday Wed-nesday night nnd luckily will suffer no sorlous results. Prom tlio best Information It appears ap-pears that tho lad was coming from tho corral to tli-a house when ho wns shot, indicating thnt tho bullet came from tho east. City Marshal John S. Evans mndo' an Investigation and found that the caso was purely accidental. ac-cidental. About tlio time tho boy was shot, two of tho neighbor's boys woro practicing with n Target ritflo In the yard of Thomas Rubboii, about 2G or 30 rods nway. Ono or them was Btiro that his shots did not go In tho direction di-rection of tho Drown home) but the other boy admitted that a bullet, intended in-tended for n bird, might have readied 'ho nrovvn boy. Only recently a rifllo shot 1n& Imbedcd la tho shanty nt Jamos Pot-ortion'o Pot-ortion'o home, but two feet from whero1 Mrs. Peterson wuh entorlng tho door, and mnny other instances of reckless shooting by boys nro loported. .Thg fcmcni'flfaimkttlinU TlS5,fliifncIerik.'l6 toTMll'mtcnce? othorvvlso thern will be nomo cases for tho courts n . |