Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1915 — Mitchell Paper Relates Details of Fatal Accident. [ARTICLE]

Mitchell Paper Relates Details of Fatal Accident.

Trustee George Parker, of Hanging Grove township, received a copy of the Mitchell, S. D., Capital of April 15th, which gives an account of the accidental killing of Claw W. Bartee, brief mention of which was made last week.- The young man was the husband of Mary Peregrine, formerly pf this county. She and a baby two months old survive. The tragedy occurred at 2 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon. He and a neighbor named William Gilmore had been working about the farm 11 miles northeast of Mitchell. Bartee had a Winchester repeating shotgun and used it occasionally during the da? to shoot crows that were flying near the bam. A small pig got out of a pen and Bartee asked Gilmore to chase the pig back in the pen while he went to the bam to get the hammer and nails to mend the pen. He did not return to the pen and a search resulted in finding his dead body in the bam. Gilmore had not heard the discharge of the gun, probably owing to the squealing of the pig. The gun lay at Bartee’s side and a hole in his chest showed that the gun was near him when discharged and that death must have been instantaneous. The coroner held an inquest and a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mr. and Mrs. Bartee were married in December, 1913. He was 24 years of age.