Arizona republican., 1906-08-19
'I DIDN'T THINK
 SAID JULIUS IRON
Telling the Story of the Fatal ShOet.
 ing of George Lee.
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The iuquisition into the circum@ stances of the death of George Lee. the fourteen-year-old son of Professor ". Fl. Lee. who died the day before of a gun shot wound inflicted by a play mate, Julius IriOns, was conducted yes- terday by Acting Coroner JOhnstOne. The members of the jury were D. B. Wright, C. J. Sanichas, A 4. Graf, J. C. Murtha, T. J. Duncan and F. J. Hat ton. The jury found that the shooting was accidental.
 The witnesses were the IriOns boy. who was accompanied by his two smaller brothers. and members Of the family of w. l.. Osborn, at whose house the shooting occurred. It was shown that the boys who had been spending the day together hunting, arrived at the Osborn house along in the after noon and stopped to get a drink. They sat down by the well and began play ing. Lloyd Osborn, little boy of nine. wanted to shoot After he had fired several shots at target with Irion's gun he put a cartridge into 1t and gave il back to it's owner.
 Tn the meantime young Lee had taken his rifle apart and having put it together again, knowing it to be un- loaded, he pointed 1t at ITiOns. saying. T got you that time" No you didn't" replied the other boy. who for getting that his gun was loaded. aimed it at Lee and was paralyzed with fright at its discharge.
 The wounded boy fell and blood gushed from his mouth. The members of the Osborn family gathered about him and washed the blood away. con stantly removing the forming cloJ until i the flow lessened when they dared to | bpTa that he 11qighr racoV-ar Egrrr rls | blood was still flowing. now inwarily. Dr. Hughes was sent for but long i before he arrived the boy was dead
 Mrs. Osborn thought he lived twenty
 minutes after the shooting but the doc
 tor. from the nature of the wound and the quantity of blood about did not 1 think he could have lived more than ! five minutes. The 22 caliber ball had
 cut the carotid artery.
 The story of the shooting was tod
 by the Irions boy in a straightforward
 manner without any attempt at miti- gation He said he had seen the little Osborn boy put the cartridge into the gun. 'I knew it was there" said he, but I didn't think" The boy was almost heart broken.
 When the story of the shooting was
 told to Mrs. Irions she ran rapidly through the hot sun to the Osborn residence. arriving there a helpless wreck. It was feared that Mrs Lee. who was spending the summer in West Prescott. could not be reached in time for her to take the train for Phoenix Ion Friday night but she received the message in time and arrived here broken with grief. She was taken tu the Sisters hospital. where she lay all day prostrated. The grief of Professor Lee, usually so strong and se.f-con- tained. was Ditiful.
 But their son was boy to grieve lover. He was beloved of all the neigh
 bors obedient, cheerful and brilliant for one so young.
 The funeral will take place at four 10 o'clock this afternoon from the under
 taking rooms of Mohn X Driscoll. It must be as great a feat to have all of little girls petticoats the same length, as it is to have everything that
 goes on the stove cooked al the same 5 time-Atchison Globe