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Show Narrow Escape ; Three-year-old Likes Shotguns George William Lindquist, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lindquist of 106 East Fourth North street, was impressed impress-ed chiefly by the fact that the "gun goes boom," but his shaky but grateful parents were mar. velittg Friday at the ingenuity of infants. Mr. Lindquist had Just purchased purchas-ed a shotgun Thursday night and had left it in the house Friday morning, after checking to be sure it was empty and after placing a box of shells on a shelf out of reach of the child. The youngster, unable to lift the gun, maneuvered it into position po-sition several times and clicked the hammer down upon the empty chamber. This did not prove exciting enough, so he went to another room, unnoticed by Mrs. Lindquist and her mother, and pulled out drawers to " build a ladder to the high shelf where the shells were placed. "We don't know how he did it," Mr. Lindquist explained, "but somehow he got out a shell, carried it back to the gun without being noticed and somehow got it in the chamber." The next time the child pulled the trigger, the gun "went boom" with a vengeance. The charge missed Mrs. Lindquist by a few feet, blew the leg off a chair, tore "P some overstuffed furniture ' and brought- down about a yard of plaster. No one was injured. |