The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
TWO YOUNG LADIES.

stupid Hunter Mistake Them Tor TaIa-
cats ana PerfOrafes Them with Buck
.l-O1' [san Francisco BuIletin.l r.
The reckless stupidity and ignorance
of hunters who infest the country round
about the Bay of San Francisco renders
Il unsafe for one to stroll among the
suburbs. Game, such as rabbits, squir-
rel and quail, may dodge around with
perfect security, but men, women and
children must keep q sharp lookout for
their lives. Yesterday Miss Whitcomb,
q young lady Of Berkeley, and hersister,
aged eight years, accompanied by a
gentleman, went ought for stroll. In
the neighborhood OF the water tank on
the Telegraph road the party sat down
behind a bush=covered knoll Suddenly
the discharge of a gun surprised the
party. The gentleman heard something
crushing against the fence, ard turning
toward his companions, saw the little
girl falling and Miss Whitcomb drop
ping her head. He ran to the assistance
of the little one and was Mortified to find
that she was wounded. He also discov-
cred that Miss WhitcOmb was shot in
the face. The hunter who fred the shot
came forward to assist them, and they
were then removed to their home in
Berkeley.
DR.. Woolsey vas summoned to attend
to their wounds. He found that Miss
Whitcomb had been shot in the left side
of the face, Just below the eye, the mis-
sile passing through the head and max
ing it's exit a little below the outer
angle of the right eye, producing frac-
ture of the bones on the right side of the
face, also iniuring the outer cover of the
right eve. Her wound is serious, and if
she RECEIVERS viii inevitably leave some
scars, and there is d strong probability
of permanent injury to the right eye.
Her pretty little sister was insensible
with a terrible wound above the fore
head, little to the felt side. The skull
was fractured and the brains oozed
through the wound, which was large
enough to introduce a finger. Her re.
Covery is very doubtful.
The hunter who made the terrible
mistake is VIM. Gross, who resides at
No. Is Cypress street, Oakland. Last
evening he made the following state
ment concerning the tragedy: and
Mr.. Mochult went hunting this morn
ing out to Telegraph Canyon, and
walked until he came up pretty near to
the coal mine. MIR. Mochuit shot at a
rabbit, and my dog-a very valuable one,
a good hunter, and the principal support |
of my family, and which jumped after
the rabbit-Was shot. That was at |
II o'clock, and I felt very bad. We !
buried him; then walked towards home, |
about fifty yards west of the little |
whisky mill, near the water tank, on the |
Telegraph road, and about twenty-five
yards west of that shanty, / thought [ .
saw a wildcat in the brush. / was
about seventy-fve yards of, and l says |
to MOchuIt, 'There is a wildcat there |
He said: L have got buckshot, and | |
will load with it, He did so and tried |
to show him the place where the wild
cat was but he could not see 1t, so he
gave me his gun and l fired it off. Mr..
saw something tumble, and
said, You have killed the wildcat
When we arrived within twithin twenty
five yards of the place, a man jumped
up and cried, Heidi help! you have
wounded themP When we went up, we
found two young ladies, one nine years
IF age, and the other eighteen or twenty,
pretty badly wounded. When l fired 7
vas about sixty or sevepty-fve yards
rom the fence, behind which they sat.
That fence was on a knoll, and around
he place was some chaparral. On the
,ther side of the knoll they were sitting
md I saw something as big as a hand
moving backwards and forwards on the
inc of the knoll, and as had previously
een three wildcats about the same place,
t made me think it was another one,
)ut probably it was the young Iady's
lat, and l being in the bushes, [ could
lot see it distinctly. Well, we procured
wagon and assisted them. We then
walked towards home, where I changed
ny hunting clothes and came up here
nd surrendered myself. Now, I want
0 explain further why was hunting on