The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-29
PISTOL BULLET
DESTROYS EYE:
a Popular Young Man Man OF
Greensboro Very Badly
Wounded.
A WOMAN or GREAT AGE.
Aunt Roxana# Hunt, in Green's
boro, WHO'S lo8 Years
3 Il Old.
A WOMAN OF GREAT AGE.
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GREDNSHORO. NJ. g., july @.-Ihils
morning at 8 o clock Mr.and Mrs. J. W.
Nicholson, living on West Market street.
were startled by tho report Of pistol
shot In the bed room upstairs Of their
adopted son. Van Billiards. Nicholson, .
YOUTH seventeen years old They found
the ytllnG man lying PROSTATE and un-
conscious on the floor with blood gush-
ling fron, his. head and face, Doctors
were Immediately summoned and every
prompt attention given BY four phys-
clans.
From the course the pistol ball took.
the physicians say It must have been
accidental. They think the young man
had reached under his pillow o. got his
pistol out before coming to breakfast
and that he must have dropped II, dis
charging It, or unconsciously pulled tho
sclf.cockIng trigger. causing It to exc
plodc. The ball entered tho right cheek.
ploughed upwards over through the left
eye, lodging under Or In the left tenn
pie. He had been clerking for Farrs and
Flutz, druggists, up to two weeks ago.
when he retired to 50 on a summer trip
later.
q llc is from Franklin county; Is nephew
4 OF Chief Justice Walter Clark OF RAJ
leigh. and had been adopted and raised
by his aunt. Mrs J.5W. Nicholson. OF
( this city. ISL gs 8s ~
e Young Nicholson is resting quietly to-
night, physicians giving out hopes OF re-
covery. a surgical operation relieved the
#hcmorrhagc. and the ball was extracted.
The left eye was also removed. tie De-
came conscious and remains so. hut has
been unable to explain the accident
seeming Ignorant OF It.
Mr.. Sloan's Funeral.
The First Presbyterian Church OF this
city was crowded at II O'Clock this
morning BY residents and visitors. dcslr-
Ing to pay last honor to the me mory Of
Greensboro's oldest and best beloved
citizen. Robert NJ. Sloan, who died ws-
terday. s sf!I sas9 " 81 "a i&8 s
Besides representatives 81 the city
government. who were prcscnt In ia
body the following officials Of the
Southern Express Company. OF WHICH 4
two years, we're present In a body and &
acted as an honorary escort to the
cortegc: O. NJ. sadler. general super
Sintcndent OF Charlotte: s. R. Gilchr'st.
assistant superintendent OF Warrington h
ID. CT: W.! B. Rogers. route agent, At 7
lanta, Ga.: ". P. Lcary, route agent,
Winston Salem; s. J. Park, acting agent
at Greensboro and the entire office
force OF the two Greensboro stations.
The president OF tho Southern Express
Company wired a letter Of 1tnpathys to
the family and stated that no would have
been present had he been In reach OF
Greensboro. li4 Y
More Than 2 Century.
The death OF Hon. Robert NJ. Sloan. nj
the age OF o., has developed tho pres
c,ce In this city OF negro woman
named Roxann Hunt. widow OF Fred
Hunt, who is los years old. Her age
Is vouched for by Rev. T.. n. Pegram.
who Is an honorcd member OF n the 4
Methodist Episcopal Conference, himself
rs years of age.
Or. Pegram says that he was nursed
BY Aunt Roxana when an infant. and
knew her then as "old Nanny" He
has kept In touch with her all his life.
paying her visits almost every year dur
Ing the time she lived at Jamestown.
before her husband died. several years
ago. She Is not aon!, alive. but Is lively.
Squire J. r. Pearce, himself 50 years
ole, 4issLad claim and delivery papers for
her yesterday TO attach some property Y
on which she h11i chattcl mortgage
for a loan OF money.