Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — Wounded Girl to Recover. [ARTICLE]

Wounded Girl to Recover.

Huntington, May 80. —Shot with a charge from a 20-gauge shotgun In the right leg between her hip and the knee and now’ suffering from an eght-lnch wound, three inches deep, Miss Edith Short, sixteen years old, a telephone operator of this city, is on the road to recovery, the surgeons believe. Miss Short was shot by her father, Boyd Short, who declared that he was cleaning the gun and accidentally discharged the weapon. Her father is held in the County jail here, pending a thorough investigation by Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Sapp.