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Show EIGHTEEN DEATHS FROM HUNTING Boston, Dec. 16. With the last day of hunting for this year In New Eu-! Eu-! gland ended at midnight, the record shows a toial of eighteen deaths for the Feasou. It is possible that other 1 deaths may result from serious injuries in-juries received. The number of dead is far below that of the past two years, thirty-one having been killed last year and twenty-eight the year before. More than half the victims this ear were youths under twenty-one twenty-one years of age. Ten were killed by guns in the hands of others, the victims In four cases being mistaken for deer. Five were killed by their own weapons and three mot death by drowning. One of the latter was cnasing a deer over thin ice when the; ice broke, drowning the hunter ' and his quarry. The two others were : ew amped in a boat heavily freight-j freight-j e-d with the deer they had bagged Maine, with its two and a half I months of open season, leads the ' New England death list with 10; New Hampshire, with 16 dajs of open soa-son, soa-son, adds five victims; Rhode Island, with its open season on birds, con-' con-' tributes, and Vermont one. Countits I of Massachusetts had an open season , on deer for a week, but no fatalities ref ulted. j A total of 3.301 deor. 100 mooso ; and 22 bears from the Maine woods ! had been shipped through Bangor i up to today. Last year 3,022 deer, 123 moose and 25 bears were killed. Astdeer will continue lo come in for several days. It Is expected the total will reach fully 3,500. ) rw, |