Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — ANOTHER BOY GETS HURT. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER BOY GETS HURT.

Elmer Clemens, the 15 year old son of J. B. Clemens, of New.ton tp., came to town last Friday, to call Dr. Bitters to attend an older brother, who was sick with a billions attack. While in town Young Clemens procured a box of cart" ridges tor Lis revolver. On arriving home he didn't stop to unhitch his horse, but went into the house and began loading the re. volver with his new-bought cartridges, taking out the removable chamber, for the purpose.j One of the cartridges would not go in and of course tlie boy began hammering upon it, to force it in, using for the purpose the back of an old razor. The hammering exploded the cartridge, of course, and the bullet went -into the boy’s thigh, making a deep and painful, though not dangerous wound. Dr. Bitters was; still at the place, prescribing for the older boy, and he at once attended to the wound, and arrested the flow of blood. He went back the next day to see if the bail could be extracted, but found it in so deep, that so much cutting would be necessary in the operation that he thought it better not to make the attempt, and the boy will probably carry the bullet the rest of his days.