Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1916 — TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY WOUNDS TWO VISITORS [ARTICLE]

TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY WOUNDS TWO VISITORS

„Fires Load of Shot From His Tent on the Kankakee, Putting Out Eye of One of the Men. White, of Tefft, lost an eye artd had his head filled with shot la3t Friday and a companion by the name of Libby had an arm peppered by shot fired from a gun by Clyde Brown, the twelve-year-old son of Dee Brown, last Friday. Young Brown and others had a camp on the Kankakee up near Tefft from which they did fishing. His companions had gone to Tefft, leaving him alone in the camp. About noon he was in the tent when Wihte and his companion approached. They had been down the river and were returning to Tefft. When they approached the camp, they said they decided to stop and get a drink and the first thing they knew they heard the report of a gun and felt the sting of the shot. They said they thought the camp was vacant when they entered it The gun was fired from the tent, the barrel of the gun protruding from the entrance.

When the boy was questioned he said that he thought the men were going to rob the fish box at the river bank, and they were near it when the shot was fired. When it was suggested to White and Libby that the sheriff be sent for to take the boy in charge and start an investigation, they discouraged the idea, saying that nothing would come of the investigation. The boy has not been arrested, nor is he apt to be, from the reports.