Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — SHOT HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

SHOT HIS WIFE.

Mrs. Clifford Passons Wounded by Accidental Discharge of 6un. Clifford Passons was cleaning his shot gun last Friday and in extracting a shell the gun was discharged. Mrs. Passons was in an adjoining room, with her baby in her lap, facing the partition of the room in which her husband sat. The shot passed through the partition and some of.them struck the toes of both feet, the balance passing between her feet and doing no damage. Two toes were broken by the shot, one on each foot. All the toes were badly damaged. Tt was a narrow escape from death for both the mother and child and Mrs. Passons will be laid up for several weeks with her injuries.