Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1906 — ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. [ARTICLE]

ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING.

While Perry and John Horton and Omer Iliff were shooting at a mark on the woodshed at Dr. Horton’s residence Wednesday evening with a 22-calibre rifle, one shot passed-through both sides of the weather boarding and struck Flossie Hines, a nine or ten year old girl who with her parents live in the Tuteur property just west of Horton’s inflicting a wound that would no doubt have proven fatal had it entered a vital- part. The girl was carrying in an armful of wood at the time, and the bullet entered a point below the left shoulder blade, passing through into the body and lodging between the membrane of the chest and lungs. It was located by the aid of x-rays, but as it will cause no inconvenience it was not removed. The girl will soon be entirety recovered from the wound, but it was a narrow escape and should be a lesson against the shooting of these dangerous little weapons in the city limits.