Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1909 — YOUNG MAN INJURED AT REMINGTON DIES. [ARTICLE]

YOUNG MAN INJURED AT REMINGTON DIES.

Succumbs at Logansport From Lockjaw Caused By Shot Wound In One of His Hands. A telegram from Logansport to the Indianapolis Star relates the death of Charles E. Buckles, a young man who accidentally shot himself through the hand at the home of Robert Hackley, near Remington, a few days ago. Death was caused by lockjaw. Our Remington correspondent gives the following particulars of the accident: Charles Buckles, who has been working for Robt. Hackley this summer, while practicing with a revolver, accidentally shot himself through the hand. A physician dressed the wound and he seemed to be getting along all right. However, Thursday at noon he complained of his neck hurting him and laughingly said he guessed he must be getting the lockjaw. He hauled a load of grain to town that afternoon and visited his doctor, only to find that what he had laughed about was really true. They took him back to town in a buggy Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, accompanied by two of his boy friends took the six o’clock train for home. The doctor said he could not much more than live to get home if he did that.