Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — Gun That Wasn’t Loaded Wounded White Co. Boy. [ARTICLE]

Gun That Wasn’t Loaded Wounded White Co. Boy.

Orval Davis, son of George Davis, of Headlee, is lying in a hospital at Monticello with’a gunshot wound involving his lung. The gun was fired by Garland Fross. The boys stopped at the residence of Earl Hornbeck and finding no one at home they took down a rifle which was hanging on the wall. Fross, assuring his companions that the gun was not loaded, pointed it at them, with the result that a bullet passed into the body of Davis. It is. thought he will recover.