The record-union., 1898-12-27
A YOUNG LIFE CUT SHORT.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT TO A
CHILD YESTERDAY.
Six-Year-OId Grover Buckman
Shot in the Eye With
Rifle Bullet.

| Grover w. Buckman, a six-year-old
boy, who lived with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Buckman, at 1851
| Third street, lies in the Morgue, the
victim of criminal carelessness with
| firearms. for it does not seem possible
that anyone would Intentionally kill a
child of such tender years. The father
and mother of the child are nearly
crazed with grief
His mother, who was upstairs with
the children, had sent him downstairs
for buttonhook, and as he was gone
a long time she went to see what was
the matter. She found him lying dead
on the floor, a 22-caliber bullet having
struck him in the right eye and passed
clear through his head, coming out Of
the middle of the back part and split
| ting the skull.
Sheriff Johnson and Chief of Police
| Dwyer We're notified, and Immediately
| began a search for the party who had
done the shooting.
About l O'Clock a Chinese boy about
| Il years old, named Hong Wing, who
works for Mrs. Lyons in that neigh
| borhood, had been shot through the
| foot with a 22-caliber rifle and the
officers learned that the shooting had
been done by a boy named Willie
| Lynch who lives in the alley between
P and Q streets, and as it was thought
| he knew something of the shooting of
| the Buckman child he was taken to the
station, as was also Johnny McLaugh-
| lin, who was with him when the young
| Chinaman was shot
They were questioned last night. but
T oh do &Io+ L,
seen the gun with which Hong Wing
was shot, after he laid it down after
the shooting. He said that after he
had helped take Hong Wing away in
the wagon he returned to Second and
| @ streets to play and was at that point
when he heard Mrs. Buckman crying
over the death of her child, and went
up to see about the matter
Young Mclaughlin stated that after
Lynch shot the young Chinaman he laid
the gun down and went to take care
of him in the wagon; that one of the
Leitch boys, who We're also present,
picked up the gun and handed it to
him (McLaughlin), and that he took it
in the house and put it away, and that
it was not taken out again until Off
Ger Fisher asked him for it, He also
insisted that they were all playing at
Second and Q when they heard Mrs.
Buckman cry out over her child.
Mr.. Buckman was at the police sta
ton last night and stated that the
child was not shot in the house, but
on the porch outside, and that his
mother carried him into the house.
The affair seems wrapped In mys-
terry at present. The fact remains,
however, according to the statements
OF residents in the vicinity, that boys
have been using air guns and small
caiiber rifles recklessly in that vicinity.
shooting at birds and at the oranges
on trees in the yards, and the wonder is
that no serious accidents have happen
ed before. Chief Dwyer,. while riding
around the city yesterday afternoon.
previous to the killing of the Buckman
child, took away from boys five air
rifles and two sling-shots, their use be-
ing forbidden by ordinance within the
city limits, as they are dangerous
weapons.
orders have been given to all mem
oers of the police force to arrest any.
and all boys found with such weapons
IN their possession, and the youngsters
VIII put them away. if they are wise.