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TEUM1BI7JE'^iicCIjpBWT.Warning TO' Young Boys who are * , IN' THE H ABIT OF 6 OINGHunting.On Wednesday last about eleven* o'clock a boy came riding in town at a broafcMieck speed, and inquired for Dr Montgomery, saying th-ir a boy by the name of Hugh Bell, living about one and a half miles west of town had accidently shot himself. The doctor started immediately for the scene of the accident, and found that the young man had been carried to a house near by, where he quickly repaired to. and found the patient. He made an ex* amination and found the boy to be seriously injured. the shot having entered jast above the groin, taking an upward course, penetrating tor about eight inches, coming in contact with his ribs, where they lodged. No* wishing to undertake so critical a case without the help or advice of some other surgeon, Dr. Latta, of Goshen, was sent forgjbufc not arriving in time, and seeing‘^he patient was getting worse, the doctor undertook to extract the shot, and sue-■eessfully accomplished the operation, just before Dr. Latta arrived. ^The facts of the accident, a* near a% ;|r© can learn, as as follows : The boy^whose oatne is Hugh Bell, aged sixteen.:.7 -C- O ’■ 'j yfears, went hunting Wednesday l*mt, , and seeing a rabbit shot at it, at the ! **hie time standing on a large log. (The gun was a double barreled shot gua). Without getting off tiie log he -coupneneed loading the barrel he had disc^rged,. when the gun slipped out of his bands and striking on the log. exptoded. the other barrel, which caused t. eWfctsidcuD as stated above,A last accounts the patient is in lathervapretarious condition, with bit little hopes, of his recovery.+ :_
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Wakarusa Sun
Wakarusa, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1876
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