The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-19

they went into the woods to jump the
game. The Harbour brothers had not
been long absent when Wall heard a
shot, followed by voice which SAID:
II am shot" or He shot me. MI.
Wall does not remember which
search was made and John Harbour
was found dead. Who shot him was
never discovered, but near the BODY
were found signs of hastily deserted
hunters camp
Two more men We're shot in upper
Maine before the moose season opened,
and before the 18th of October DaViu
Hodgkins, a woodsman, who was en-
gagged in swamping out road Tor
logging operations in township NO. z.
near Lincoln. was drilled through ana
through. Men We're working near MN,
teemed contemportutujptupjt utu
they We're startled when they saw
Hodgkins fall. He was STOPPING over.
bushing out between some trees, when
struck. The bullet entered his back
and passed upward through one lung.
The wound looked as if it might nave
been made by 1920. which will XIII
far and away over mile.
on the 18th the 13-year-old son of
Mrs. Margaret Gray of Bangor, who was
visiting in Ellsworth. was shot In the
back by some unknown person. Inc
boy had gone for stroll in the WOODS
and was sitting on a rock on the shore
OF Branch 1Onu WntI spiit t"i'it7''
hunter happened along and mistook him
for deer. Another fatal shooting accl-
dent occurred at North Twin loke, near
Norcross, Me. Oct. II. One OF Two
brothers, Henry d. Olmstead of Med
ford. Me. was shot and killed by Henry
r. Packard. a jewelry manufactures Oh
Attleboro Mass. Olmstead and ms
brother, who We're employed in a spoon
mill near the foot Of North Twin, were
returning from visit to some bear traps
on Ragged stream. They were walking
close together and Henry wore bright
red sweater. The report of d rifle
sounded so close that Frank Olmstead
thought his brothers rife had been ac-
cidentally discharged. Henry was shot
through the arm aud clear through the
body. He lived about two hours. rack
ard. who afterward gave himself up is
a man of 80. He could have sworn that
what he saw was a deer He nad
hunted all his life and only two days
before had left the vicinity of Norcross
through fear of being shot. Inc oill-
GERS to whom he presented himself at
Dover the shire town of the county IN
which the shooting occurred. could DO
nothing. so he was discharged, badly
broken up man.
Two men, natives of Phillips. Me-,
were shot at in October, and prevented
a second shot by lusty bowling. a boy
was killed accidentally near Rockland.
Me-, while bird shooting, and Walter
Davenport of Phillips, Me-, received two
charges of bird shot from a couple of
jay hunters who thought he looked like
II deer.
Charles y. Taylor of Provincetown.
Mass, was killed accidentally by his
brother while bird shooting. Mr.. ray
| Tor was employed by Boston fruit
! firm as supercargo at Jamaica. and was
| spending his vacation on the cape. rms
| occurred Oct Is, and eight days later
! DViad st. George of Fall River was snot
| and killed by his brother while bird
hunting. There have been other cases
! of shooting III Maine when nave nol
| been reported.
The frequency of fatal shooting acct
! dents has been such that hundreds have
been deprived of their usual fall sport
! thrugh fear of being shot. The neXl
! Maine Legislature undoubtedly Will bt
| asked to frame a statute bringing such
! cases within the scope of criminal
| Carelessness" so that an example may
! be made of those who care so little for
! human life as to shoot On the move OF q
/ bush or a vague glimpse of something
! alive through the underbrush, Knowing
that the woods all around them are PEG
| pied With hunters and guides. Ihef'
| are men in Maine to-day who thlni
twice before entering the woods IL 1t l
known that disgruntled neishbor hap
pens to be out with his repeater in ques
of game.
1T is ALFRED easy" said a Medwa,
guide in camp on Second 10 Merry lax
last month, Ito square up matters Wit
an enemy or by creasing him. or lettin
daylight through him. for there is II
law to punish you for it. 1t Is simply
case of watching your chances, creas
or kill. and then swear that you though
YOU were pulling on a deer.