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Show Newton Lad AccidenHy Shot While Hunting Shot In the fleshy part of the leg between the knee and hip, Clair Peterson, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Iner Peterson of Newton, and student at the North Cache high school, is in the Cache Valley General hospital in Logan, awaiting await-ing developments from the wound. The Newton lad together with his companion, Junior Sanders were hunting on Bear River when the Sanders youth turned to tell Clair that he had shot at some black crows but missed them. At that the shotgun accidentally discharged, dis-charged, with the full charge of shot entering the Peterson .boy's leg. At the hospital where the victim was rushed immediately, it was found that bits of clothing had been shot into the flesh and that the bone of the leg had been splintered. Parents of Clair were In attendance atten-dance at semi-annual conference at Salt Lake City when the accident acci-dent happened. |