The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-09-28
FOUND DYING INA STABLE.

IUUNU UllNU In A DlADLEs
YOUNG GEORGE GRANTS MYSTERIOUS
PISTOL SHOT WOUND.
HE Little nr.ther Finds ii. Lyins Usass .
Herse'A Feet, aad 10 10 SuppsseA for Hsars
thst the Hsras Kicked hin e Death.
MONMOUTH JUNCTION. Sept. V.-For moro
than twenty years John Grant and his family
had lived on small farm on the New Bruns-
wick and Trenton turnpike. About half mile
south Of the farm the turnpike ia crossed BY
tho Kingston road to Monmouth Junction.
Tho house 10 plain story and half frame
building. standing on tho east side OF tho turn
pike. On the Same side Of the road. and about
hundred yards south Of the house. 10 the big
barn. with horse stable in the rear. Mr.. Grant
has wife and ton children. Yesterday four
Of these children were at home. the eldest Of
whom was George almost seventeen years old.
Another was Eddie. lad Of twelve.
About o'clock Mr.. Grant told the boys to 60
to the stable and hook up the team to drive to
Kingston station for load Of mari. Both boys
went to tho stable. but Eddie. the younger.
wont away directly to an clubhouse $50 yards
distant. About ten minutes later he entered
the stable door again. He saw at q glance that
one OF the horses had been harnessed and that
the other had tho check rein over It's neck.
As he walked further In he saw his brother
George lying on his side with his face upon
the bedding In the stall. directly in front Of
the embarrassed horse. The sido OF his face
was covered with blood. Eddie turned
around and hurried into the house and said
to his father: George Ii hurt out In the
barn" Both Mr.. and Mrs. Grant hurried
to the stable. They picked the boy I'D and
carried him out into the yard. where they
placed him on the grass. He was unconsc lous.
but his arms and limbs wore twitehing. Mr..
Grant saw that his boy was seriously hurt. and
sent one Of the girls to neighbours to say that
had 9efn xiSssd 6y horse and to rex
In u few minutes tho nearest neiahbor Chns.
E. Wood. who had beon down the road, came
along and helped the father to carry the boy
then extinct Mr. Wood. having placed the
body on he'd began 70 wash away the blood
10 find no nbrasions or other marks OF horses
lishs .ds q che nose just anSsr he
s,s u' M.sd :.s fork as tine had run in
ins boy
his little brother Dr.. bergen arrived. He in
sss.tsd probe about four inches up into tho
. to shot, family GRANT ssd aa sa' boy
stable 70 s See nHf shepe a. 70
found to explain the shooting. Careful search
IN and around the stall! and In tho mnnger. left
mark to show that any one had been there here With
The hss
shooting suggested was that the boy had been
PLAYING with . pistol and had accidentally shot
had obtained . small cheap revolver from :
German named George Towers. who worked
Iii, SS " n. 10y nS: s:IIss And
Ora w went to tie stable. Mrs. Grant took
Seina to his room anoeked wrisns c cau
found there 11ss%fd had 2Ss been rsS
with the revolver. On the suggestion Of
ssr Thee: fhsy s e...a y.
amined the stsble and lie surronndines. They
oInd that the boy: after harnessins one horse,
Hs stood on the isi. side Of i' tho horse o1.;
the or.a e. bis
thrown: il = pis,ol had been fred shroqsh that
the dd b.s
2, where he stood e = door that opeRsd
into tho nurrc cow ps eed Of Beyond orS ; ana
then comes u dense scrub, oak. woods that
stretches for mile 70 the railroad. The Chief
ths barn. and while PLAYING with pistol had
sS KY sos, @ bad Sss hf o ,a GT
and s6,d IL aa s%sh plain ohildke way that no ono
Tho The dead dead boy Was a ouist and manly Young
fellow. and there was no reason for any one 70
murder him II was suRgested that neigh:
%Sh xSs been Be- aa sess ss
accidentally been DISCHARGED. and that the
oonS hi had then Il fed In
soil George sinsfs Sarresd o %Sa i povas9
snd 81 tine , nG ss
psnn's Mack. On Sunday. but Eddie ssid that
that i was put away where It was found By his
moth . The theory that tramp had Killed
a tas BY @ssR TSs !.
aasntly slept in his barn. 81. Wood. Who Was
that when coming up the road soon after the
shooting he , mot q smooth- faced tramp, about
E Sst oh blue d 1
tramps. but he WAS so far from the barn that
eevered the d u. Tia. ' n. o one
who did tho sh9otinx !. believed 70
nave nave gone INTO the woods. From the
Eddie says no reached the barn was
no. over four mi1%,o e No en 1 heard any re:
hemisphere Of tho brain. 1t was apparently
from a twenty-two calibre revolver. After
land. Lawson. Berlsn. ,Runyon. and Quick.
All neighbors. had been summoned a.
this DR.. Stack says, 1t 10 evident that
the boy did not kill himself, because
after such a wound. he would have been unable
to throw pistol even into the next stall, The
seilby exploding a naked cartridge was not
frs s because s nothing was found by which
positive that George mad no cartridges.
The funeral will b. hold at the house to-nor-
row aiternoon at o'clock. and the body will DO
The inquest will be held on Monday evening at
Monmouth Junction.
WHERE slim JIM WAS SHOT,