Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-16

| lake and look for deer on the shore. A
| searching party In q motor boat found
the canoe bottom up and later the body
was recovered. The lake was perfectly
calm at the time when Mr.. Stevens
went out and as he was an expey t
| canoeist and a strong swimmer, the
accident seems unaccountable. Mr.
| Stevens was yard brakeman in the
employ OF the Maine Central Railroad
Coz at the Union station, Portland.
Morris W. Littlefield of Grand Falls
plantation, aged q years, was shot
| and instantly killed Sunday, Dec. 6, by
his companion, Lloyd r. Shorey of
Burlington, who mistook him for a
deer. The young men started out
| Sunday morning in the direction Of
] Bryant's Ridge, a small settlement
about 20 miles from Enfield, on days
| hunting expedition. They separated
and named a meeting place. Shorey
| arrived at the place first and as he had
taken the shortest course, he did not
expect to see Littlefield for sometime.
While awaiting the arrivel OF mis-
friend Shorey saw movement in the
bushes and fired. He heard scream
and running to the spot he found
Coroner c.. f. Rackiffe of Old Town,
after hearing the facts, in the case,
deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Covered with blood from an ugly
knife wound in his breast and with a
hunting knife clasped in the right
hand, the body Of Frank H. Marshall
Of Portland, a fireman on the Boston G.
Maine railroad, was found in the woods
by a searching party near Gilead Dec.
8. 1t was believed at first that the
man had committed suicide but the
coroners jury decided that it was an
accidental death.
John Davis, aged IA years, while
hunting at Bay Point near Rockland,
on the afternoon of Dec. -, with
Joseph Palmer, aged 90 years, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed. Davis
tropped over the trunk of an old tree
hidden in the snow and the rifle which
he was carrying. was discharged, the
bullet entering the side He died be-
fore physician could reach him.
Palmer was taken into custody but
later relea Sed.
There were the usual number of ac-
cidents during the hunting season.
some of which are as follows:
Albra Guptill. aged II years, of West
Buxton, was shot in the groin near MS
right hip on the afternoon OF Oct. 10
and almost bled to death before lie
could get aid. Mr.. Guptill was out
picking cranberries near d pond at the
time and two men from the other side
of the pond said they took him for
duck, and both fired their rifles at
nrl of
entering near his right hip and coming
out in the lower part of the groin.
While squirrel hunting in the
vicinity of the south river road at Au-
barn Oct. 13. Thomas Mcbride, aged
i years, was accidentally shot by
companion, Adjutor Rogers. aged II
years. The Mcbride boy had climbed
tree to frighten squirrel that had
hid among the branches. When one or
the branches moved. Rogers mistook
McBride's foot for a squirrel and hred.
The charge of shot struck Mcbride IN
the face and upper part of the BODY
He was taken to the Maine General
Hospital at Lewiston in critical
condition and it is feared that he VIII
lose the sight of both eyes.
Merle, the 14-year-old son of Scott
Richardson Of the Swift River district
near Rumford Falls, was accidentally
shot on the afternoon of Nov. 20. Inc
Young man had gone a mile or so from
home over back to the Blanchard farm
after rabbits Another hunter was
evidently after the same game ana
he was so near when he fired at what
he supposed was small game. that
powder was found burned into the lads
face. The boy was struck over the
right eye with charge of shot and
vas knocked almost senseless. SIX
stitches were taken. two in the muscles
CT the eye, the sight of which. however,
will not be permanently affected. one
bullet ploughed a groove in the BOY $
SKULL but did not enter.
Finemeau Bolduc. of WaterVllie'
ged q years, went rabbit hunting
Nov. s near Pette's Pond! In some way
lis gun was accidentally discharged
tne contents shatterng his foot making
partial amputation necessary
James Beaupre. aged Is years, ol
I,angor was wounded in the right
breast by the accidental discharge OF
small % caliber rifle in the hands OF
vounger companion while the boys
we're hunting birds in the woods in the
rear of Mt. Hope cemetery at Bangor
The injury was not serious.
solomon Knox, aged 19 years, Of
Oakland was injured Dec. S by the ac-
cidental discharge of gun IN the
hands of Joseph Knox, who was ek-
rlaining the mechanism of the weapon