Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1913 — SIX-YEAR OLD BOY SHOOTS HIS SISTER [ARTICLE]

SIX-YEAR OLD BOY SHOOTS HIS SISTER

Probably Fatally Wounded Hulda Toombs Taken to Hospital With Face Shot Away. A loaded shotgun left where the children could get at it was responsible' for a. terrible ' accident near Medaryville Thursday afternoon and the result will probably be the death of 8-year-old Hulda Toombs, daughter of Robert Toombs. If death does not result, and death might almost be a blessing, the unfortunate girl will be terribly deformed, the left side of her face, including part of the bone and part of the nose, having been shot away, leaving the eye. Mr. and Mrs. Toombs were away from home. The shotgun was left Where the children could find it and the &year-old boy, Byron by name, said to his sister, ‘Tm going to shoot you.” Hie pointed the double barreled shotgun at her and pulled the trigger. She fell to the floor, the blood gushing from the terrible wound in her face. That was about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The mother returned home at 6 o’clock and discovered the little girl in a pool of blood. The boy did not what* he had done, although able to describe what had happened. Dr. Jones, of Medaryville, and Dr. Gwin, of this city, were called, and they dressed the wound as best they could, talcing precaution to avoid infection. Friday the child was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, where it was thought the accident wbuld probably prove fatal.