Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Accidental Shooting in Montana. [ARTICLE]

Accidental Shooting in Montana.

Mrs. Addle Crosscup left for her home near Townsend. Mont. Thursday evening, after receiving word that her son-in-law. Guy Olmstead, had been accidentally shot a few days before. Mr. Olmstead Is slightly known in Rensselaer, having come here a short time before his marriage on Oct. 28, 1906, to Miss Marybelle Crosscup. Mr. and Mrs. Olmstead and Mr. and ' Mrs. Sam Pullins are farm neighbors near Townsend, and the day of the accident Guy went to Sam’s house to borrow his rifle. It was hanging on hooks back of the kitchen door, and as Guy went to get it down it fell to the floor, the butt striking and discharging the gun, and the bullet went through one of Guy’s arms shattering the bone and making, so bad a wound as to cause the family physician to recommend that they send him at once to a hospital at Helena, Mont, and this was done There was some fear that the loss of the arm might result.