Show I FATAL ACCIDENT An Old Man Kills His Little Step lon Special Correspondence THE DEMOCRAT Ogden has again been enjoying a little fracas disturbing the Sabbatarian quiet It was about between 10 and 1 oclock when the neighborhood of the IronWorks Iron-Works were aroused by a pistol shot I Investigation which was short and t i tho point showed the shot had proceeded from the dwelling place of Richard Hull better known as Rattling Dick a butcher by He buther profession was fixing a Colts revolver with which so told TIE DEMOCRAT man he intended to shoot some stray chickens prowling on his grounds Accidentally one of the three loads in the gun became discharged the bullet striking through the calf of the i left leg of Dick entering three inches above the ankle and passing througe coming out about three inches below the I knee This injurydid not affect the old man very badly though the wound was painful but it had a dreadful effect j upon Fraukie his 9yearold stepson I who was sitting near by As I learn j from Dr J H Bryant the ball which is at this writing thought to bo a fatal missile entered over the left eye of the lad ranging upwards and backwards lacerating tho anterior lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain about half an I ounce of the matter oozing out As intimated mated above tho wound was at once considered con-sidered fatal The police were notified of the occurrence and secured Dick placing him in a jail cell to await his preliminary hearing which was to take place today Your correspondent saw Dick in the calaboose where the prisoner was occupying occu-pying a bunk in single confinement He was somewhat violent and still showed the aftereffects of the bad liquor the imbibing of which had caused the dreadful dread-ful catastrophe of the forenoon He emphatically em-phatically denied all intention at doing anyone the least harm as he loved the boy though only rr stepson As a rule Dick had been a pretty hard drinker but generally an inoffensive man with no enemy but his own self Further developments de-velopments will be duly forwarded OGDEN Cry May 9 1887 |