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Accidental Shooting.—A tailor, named Andrew Essig, recently became the happy possessor of a revolver. On Friday while examining it at hi* room in the Empire House, it waa accidentally discharged, aa he waa patting it Into hie pocket. The ball lodged in hi* thigh, infliotiag a severe, but not serious flesh wound. Dr. Gulich was called into to attend the wounded man.It is a difficult problem to solve, whether a revolver is more dangerous to the man who earries it than to some one else.
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Alton Weekly Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1874
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