Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — A BOY’S AWFUL DEED. [ARTICLE]

A BOY’S AWFUL DEED.

At the house of William Morgan, in Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Pa., Tuesday, Mrs. Morgan was sitting in a ch dr nursing a six-months-old child. Her six-year-old son, named Willie, took an old shotgun from a closet. The little fellow climbed upon a chair and secured another cap from a shelf. He cocked the gun, aimed at his mother and when about fifteen feet away cried: “Look out, mamma, I’m a cowboy and I’m going to shoot.” With these words he fired, the charge entering the face, head and chest of the mother and the back and head of the infant. The mother fell unconcious. Mother and child are not expected to recover.