The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-19
RABBIT RAN UP
MANS ARM AND
COMP ANTON SHOT
Just as Albert Krone Reached
Down to Grab Elusive Bun
ny, Schneider Fired Shotgun,
Into Krone's Shoulder.
KRONE WILL RECOVER
FROM HIS INJURIES.
Was Brought to His Home in
This City This Afternoon
Details of the Shooting Have
Been Made Public.

In his excitement and frantic haste
to kill a thoroughly alarmed rabbit.
which was being chased out of a hole
by a blood-thirsty ferret, Frank
Scheibler, Wednesday morning nearly
ended the earthly existence of his
friend, Albert Krone, by shooting him
with a charge of bird shot in the right
shoulder. The accident occurred about
six miles south of this city, near the
Arlington pike.
Krone was painfully wounded. but
his condition is not serious, and this
| afternoon he was brought in an ambu-
| lance from the home Of Robert Lamb,
on the Abingdon pike, to his home in
I this city.
Besides the serious side of the acct
dent, it also has its humorous side.
Early Wednesday morning Albert
Krone, Frank Scheibler and Dan Van
Etten. all we'll known young men,
went out on hunting expedition.
While hunting near the Lamb farm, q
rabbit was uncovered and it promptly
| took refuge in it's hole. Van Etten
stationed himself on the side of hill
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Krone and Scheibler placed a ferret in
the hole and waited for developments.
They did not have to wait long.
Almost instantly the rabbit dashed
out of the hole Krone stopped 10
grab it, but the elusive animal jumped
onto his right shoulder. Scheibler
drew up his shot gun and aimed it Ill
the direction of Krone. Scheibler S
trigger finger was cold and in his eff
fort to cock his gun, the hammer snap
ped prematurely. AS a. result, the
entire charge bored its way into
Krones right shoulder.
Scheibler did not know that he had
injured his friend, notwithstanding
the ear-splitting screams the wounded
man emitted, and he gave chase to the
rabbit finally bringing the frightened
animal down by a well aimed shot. II
was then that Scheibler realized fol-
the first time that he had wounded, j
not killed. Krone. So shocked was
Scheibler at the sight of his wounded
companion that he Immediately faint
ed. Van Etten rushed down the hill
and seeing both Krone and Schelble
lying prone on the sod, he dashed
away. in search of assistance. In thu
meantime the ferret emerged from thu
, rabbit hole and locating the dead rab
bit, promptly proceeded to devour thu
carcass.
Van Etten, after going about quar-
ter of a mile, found some hunters ant
with their assistance removed Kron
to the Lamb farmhouse. Arrlvln;
there Krone stated that Scheibler ha
!. killed him accidentally. Krone, t.
protect his friend. ordered that the COZ
oner be summoned so that statemen
i of facts could be placed in this Off
cials hands before he QKrone) expired
| Coroner Bramkamp was summoned
but on arriving at the Lamb farm h
found that Krone needed the service
of a surgeon more than he did the ser
vices of a coroner. The wound sus
tanned by Krone is an ugly one. Th
charge from Scheiblers shotgun blew
fragments of Krone's overcOat, sacl
coat shirt. and underclOthing into tn
wound 1t was necessary for D1
Bramkamp to amputate a portion u
the shoulder blade