Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-03
4 SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
.,,es IuIlA WHITE ACCIDENTALLY
 euaoTs MR. GIBSON TAYLOR.
vscs,ye. an Ugly Wound Over the Eye
 hut Chances for his Recovery Ars Favorable.

m Hook out Mr. Taylor, am .an +o shoot" These were the ssords jestingly remarked by Miss I,,,ia White to Mr. Gibson Taylor sesterday afternoon, as she picked
 % calihre fiobert rife which was 8s+ Banding in the corner and swung ss4 q, her shoulder. The story runs Thus:
 AI,sses Julia and Emma White, auoI,ters of Mir. and Mrs. N. T.. 5in bite have been thessuests of Miss mmie sennett, of this place, for the ,.ss st week. On Saturday evening ur Gibson Taylor, nephew of Capt.
 |. Taylor, and Will Allen, of the f.p.pmc, came down to remain over sunday. On Sunday morning, at fhe request of Capt. Sennett, the xnung people adjourned to the par lar where they became engaged in u oinp hymns. After a short while tfe party returned to the front gal H,apv when Miss Julia White, on eau,ing through the hall, discovered fhe rife in the corner, and suggested fn Master Willie Sennett that she 4nd he go and shoot at the spar ra,vs. as they had beer in the habit s,f doing during the week past. She fI,en put on her sun-bonnet. swung fife rifle on her shoulder in a gun aer's style, and started through the ball. When reaching the door, and Wben, perhaps, in twenty feet of Mir. Yaylor. she lowered the rifle, and without aiming or taking any notice ak to what direction the rife was pninting, she made the above remark and pulled the trigger, and to her Hfter amazement the gun was dis flarged, the bullet striking Mr. 7aylor about one-half inch over the leIf eye, and entered his skull.
 fhe young lady was not then aegnizant of the fact that she had sO xhpt AGr. Taylor, as he uttered no raund and remained seated in the fueker, and until she discovered the 'bluOd pouring ffon the wound did s5e fealize what she had SD nninten- tinsally done. The young ladies then af once became frantic and only un- 1II the arrival of some neighboring ladies were they paeified. Capt. Sennett picked Mir Taylor up, as he 'fas falling from the chair, and car fIea him in and laid him on sofa in tas hall
 The neighborhood was then slllured for doctors, and in the course Qf 8b0ut b minutes Drs. Henderson H|a1d Meiaughy arrived on the scene.
 John Sennett was then dis S p6fched to Pine Bluff to notify their felAtiyes and bring more medical m He returned about s p. m. ae tQmpanied by Major and Mrs. N. T. White, Mr. Ewing Taylor and Drs. 5afaan and Taylor.
 he accident occurred at exactly 1z% ?. m. and until now have the elelans had hopes for his recoV-
 Upon the arrival of Drs. Jordan aQ Taylor the four physicians held eepnsutation and decided to make E.
 A2thef attempt at probing for
 bullet, one having already sSp made in the afternoon. The ssf2hd operation was performed un- esf ne supervision of Dr. Jordan, they failed to locate the bullet,
 zz succeeded in removing three z'zzPs oi fractured bone. which gave ealate relief, and Mr. Taylor is azsL Improving.
 s|s |ssihgniar incident connected with 7 Hceident Is that only q short ~ oefore the young ladies had
 sH shapping the gun, and all were H1nient that it was not l@aded. It
 #ld that Mir. Taylor placed the
 sidge Tn the chamber himself, but
 s'ofy Is not very plausible, as he
 no reply to Miss White when
 faised the gun.
 affair is. indeed, a sad one as
 young lady has already grieyed
 II almost 10 death, and will not
 Ss5'i to any words of consolation Gibson Taylor came to Pine NJ R' iast February from Louisville, ahd has since been connected l 'he T., l.. Taylor Grocery Co. " 3 h' l.. Taylor being his uncle. - young man, 2i years of age,
 Pias made host of friends dur v Als stay here.
 "uiia White is one of the most :o.a 'af Young society ladies in Pine
 and has numerous friends and Y 'ers who deeply regret the sad
 ht' and extend to her their o pand sympathy.
 
 Y at dieason's Hotel, Little