| Show paul adams accidentally shot pheasant H hunting the following clipping from the lilliard county chronicle published at delta tells of paul M adams being accidentally shot while pheasant hunting during the recent season the clipping came to ancil J adams pauls brother with a letter giving a few more details of the ac aident fi vi dent they are as follows I 1 4 paul adams was accidentally shot about the arm and face saturday when out pheasant hunting and 23 pellets had to be picked from his skin otie me party was making a drive through some brush and mr adams had lagged behind the others and was directly back of them A pheasant came up and went back of the party and dr bird whirled to shoot at it not seeing mr adams nor realizing that he was back of the line of hunters after the shot they started up again but missed mr adams they called and received no answer so went back looking for him and found him bleeding profusely from the many holes he was quickly brought to delta and four hours were spent picking shot from him one had gone through his hand one through an ear and one had hit him in the corner of the eye narrowly miss ing his eye and lodged in the bone of his nose all told seven of the pellets hit his face and the balance were in his arm and shoulder the letter states 1 I am enclosing a clipping from the local paper I 1 came out of it with no permanent but dont know why one shot jus the jugler vein in my neck all twelve shot that hit my head and face seemed to be jut ju t in the right place to do the least dama damage ge three were dug out within in an inch of my left eye one above one below and one in the nose two were dug out behind my ear and one hit my right cheek just below the nose and came out in front of the right ear two hit me high in my hair and two passed through the left ear all they could find of my gla glasses ses was wa s one side nine in my leit left arm and hand one through a finger and one through the thick part of my hand nine in in my left and about five in my hip and leg my hand is all that bothers now I 1 was out of the store for nine days and it a rest or vacation I 1 still dont see how they missed so many vital places |
