The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-11
THE SPIRIT LAKE TRAGEDY.
Particulars Of the Death of James
Holland at the Hands Of
HIS Son.
The Instinct of Love Which Led the
Dying Man to Fly to His Wife and
Pillow His Head on Her Bosom.
His Last Charge to HIS Heartbroken
Boy" Care for Mother
Always"

ST LouIS, Mo, August 9-The corpse
o! James Holland, tn steuographer who
was shot At SPIRIT Lake, by his ~.
| years-old son, Louie, arrived at the Union
Depot over the Wabash at four o'clock
this morning Mr.. Crawford. Mrs. Hol-
land, her sou and Mrs Selby "a tcompa.
MED the body, which was Immediately
conveyed to the undertaking establish
meDt Of Smthers & Wagner. Ca being
removed from the box in which it had
been shipp q it was found to be 10 4 good
state Of preservation, and WAS placed in
y cask-t and taken to the residence of
Joseph ID LawntB, No. 3409 Morgan
street, where tis funeral services will be
he'd at three O'Clock tomorrow after
noon. The body will be uterr.d in the
family lot OF his cousin, iu Bellefontaine
cemetery.
The Missouri State Stenographic Asso-
citation sent n handsome fiOral tribute ss
token OF their esteem anI love.
RESPECT FOR MS MEMORY.
II the reading of their NEGRO ogies Of
fords satisfaction to the shades of the
Just, that OF Holland ought to rest easy,
even after its AL too sudden translation
Officers o! the United States and of the
city courts Vie with short hand writer's,
with 81 ortsmen and with the dead mans
friends Of many stripes in couceding u
praise to his past life almost unique Ia
these damning-M ith faint praise days.
Lester Crawford gives the following
account OF
THE CATASTROPHE.
I.sltn J.. 4
year old son Louie from Spirit Lake, la,
~ the beginning OF the week Tor y few
days shooting At Milford, some twelve
miles off On Wednesday morning he
aud his host, \ Mr.. BeeDe, had been out
shooting and took back = large bag OF
grouse aud chckens. lie aud Beebe
weie aJmrus the birds NJ about
three o'c ock, Holland being then
Just outside the Kitchen door In the
yard. He was leaning with his right
side against the Intel, his let being
therefore exposed in the doorway. Just
before starting on his "Trip Holland had
bought Louie Il singe-barrei breech-load
lug shotgun, which the boy had used that
morning. As all OF them talked, Louie
spoke Of hi own doingS in the lie d, and
BRINGING oUI His Gun,
asked bis father TO note how quickly he
cou,d load II. Tncre WAS u she!. in the
breech, and as the boy closed the break
he let his finger slip OFT the trigger and
the piece went OFF The boy was not
three feet from his father at the time.
The ehurge plowed groove all along
Hollands fore arm and entered his side
quite coIupactly a lit below the heart.
IL tore the sp,eun Ia pieces and the doc
tors think tnat as the b US stature was
80 much lower than his fathers that
some OF the shots may have ranged up
ward 10 the heart. BE that as II may
Holland just
CALLED OUI "OH,'
turned completely round and ran straight
tor the diniDg-room, where he knew his
wi'e was. He had his hand tightly
pressed on the wound and got half way
round the diring- table before reaching
his wife. He said to her al have the
whole charge in me, ana am dying"
Blood was then pouring from his mouth,
and those present-hls wife, Becbe anu =
MIR Arnold-ali saw that there was no
chance OF his living. he leaned on his
wife for lew minutes and then sank 10
the Moor, on which he died iu about
hfteeu IN nutes lie told his wife TO
take care Of the boy, bsde BeeDe good-by,
and while the how OF blood was choking
him