Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-08-05 | Page 2 | Shoots Boy in Leg; is Held by Police

00 SHOOTS BOY IN LEG, IS HELD BY POLICE Salt Lake, Aug 6. George Zucker, i years of age, son of Morris Zucker, a ladles' tailor, waa shot through the left leg below the knee yesterday afternoon af-ternoon by Fred Smith, proprietor of a shooting gallery In Commercial street. Smith insists that the shooting shoot-ing was accidental. He was placed under arrest and is confined in the city Jail. The shooting gallery Is next door to the Tribune pressroom Young Zucker. who Is a newsboy, was walling wall-ing in front until the papers were off the press, lie was with several other "newsies, ' who S3y that Smith deliberately f i rod at them ' We were waiting for the papers.' said William Kaufman, who lives at 342 South Second East street, "when the man 1 ;mie out In front and pointed the gun at us and fired I think be wnntcd to get us away from in front of the shooting gallery. He is always trying to scare us with the gun6 " Perry Miller and Samuel Brackner newsboys who -aw the shooting, tell much the same story as the Kaufman boy. The injured lad was taken to the emergency hospital at the police station, sta-tion, where he was attended by Dr. H. B Sprague He was then taken to his home at ?' Floral avenue The wound was In the fleshy part of the lower limb and was not serloii6 The bullet did not go clear through and will have to bp probed for . nft