The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-16

ASuNDAY SHOOTING eAPPAR-THBV VIoTIM A Boy
OF FOURTEEN NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE
Boating is a very entertaining pastlme, ana,
generally speaking, quite harmless as it Is
pleasant, But when young men and boys set
at defiance the moral sense of the community,
and engage in such pastimes on the Sabbath,
II not unfrequently happens that disaster ls
the result Such was, unfortunately, the case
Yesterday afternoon; and murder trial WILL
in Gil probability, grow out OF IT..
According 10 the , tesiiInong Oh gaven py X ODrne-
ing which was held this morning by Alderman
Slnex, tine circumstances attending the sad
affair was as fOllows:-Two young men, Charles
Fisher and Jacob Jacobs by name, were
gagged, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, In
rowing down Gunuer's run, small stream In
the northern section of the city. Fisher at one
time left the boat, and shortly returned with
loaded shot gun; Entering 5 the boat, the , two
came near the bridge which crosses
IL at Cumberland street, and then
Charles Fisher deliberately fired into. q
crowd Of boys who were standing on the bridge,
hitting and seriously wounding a lad by the
name OF Charles Canin, who was but fourteen
years of sge. The contents OF the gun lodged
in his heart, neck, and left ear. The unfortu-
nate lad was removed TO his residence No; lOl7
Sommerset street, where two physicians have
since been in attendance upon him. This
morning he was in a very critical condition,
and is not expected to recover. After the firing
of the shot, the party in the boat was followed
by the crowd of boys on the shore, the latter
throwing stones at the former, to prevent their
escape They were both subsequently
arrested, and this morning Alderman Sinex
gave them ahearing, when the above facts were
origin Of the affair. Jacob Jacobs was held in
$500 bail to appear at Court but Charles
Fisher. who fired the shot, was committed to
await the results of Canin's injuries. Fisher is
but nineteen years Of age and resides at No.
three years old, and lives at No. 23l4 Coral
street.
According to another version OF the affair
Charles Fisher, in company with John Jacobs
and Charles Leopold, were rowing up Gunner's
Run, in the neighborhood of Somerset street.
On arriving at this point Fisher left the boat
In charge of Leopold, and proceeded to the resi-
dence OF John Jacobs. On returning shortly
he found Leopold standing on the shore and
the boat in the middle of the stream, IL having
been taken possession of by the lad Charles
Canin and other boys who were in his
company. Fisher demanded that they should
return TO the shore with the boat, which
request they refused to comply with. He then
hurried off to his house and returned with the
loaded gun, again demanding that the boat
should be brought to the shore This time his
request was complied with. Fisher then en-
tered the boat, in company with Jacob Jacobs,
a brother of John Jacobs, and rowed out into
the stream. Before they had gone far, Canin
and his companions commenced to throw
stones at them, which so exasperated Fisher
that he deliberately fired the contents of the
gun at young Canin, with the result as given
above.
The affair has created considerable excite
ment in the neighborhood of its occurrenc ce;
and, according to both accounts, the course
pursued by Fisher was entirely without any
Justification