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Show CEDAR CITY BOY IS FATALLY SHOT Last Sunday afternoon, the people of Cedar City were startled to learn of the accidental shooting, by which Henry Walker, 1-1 year old son of Wm. J. Walker, was fatally shot, dying dy-ing three hours after the accident. It appears that Henry, together with Keith Walker, his cousin and two other lads, were preparing for a trip to the mountains and Keith, who was carrying a double action revolver, which was adjusted so that it would fire on the third pull of the trigger, was asked by Henry to demonstrate how quickly he could draw the gun from its holster. Keith imediately complied, leveling the revolver at Henry and pulled the trigger, when the gun was discharged. The gun had evidently been snapped twice previously unknown to Keith and when he drew the gun, and snapped it, it was the third time which resulted result-ed in the discharge. The bullet broke a rib in entering the unfortunate unfortun-ate lad's chest from the right side, puncturing the right lung and lodging lodg-ing in the right shoulder blade.- The wounded boy was immediately taken to the hospital where he was given first aid but before anything could be done to remove the bullet internal in-ternal hemmorrhage set in and he died three hours following the gun shot wound. Iron County Record. |
