Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-23
SHOT IN HEAD
BY STRAY BULLET
George Trujillo Is Dying at
Home on Aqua Fria
Street
YOUNGSTERS HAD FIREARMS
Were Target Shooting Near
Bishops Ranch, Yesterday
Afternoon.

George Trujillo, aged - years, ard
ket, is thought to be dying at the home
{ of his uncle, Pedro Quintana on Aqua
Fria street, with a % bullet in his
: head. The bullet is said to have
lodged in the brain and there was
such a hemorrhage it is thought he
will not recover.
There are many stories in circula.
| tion about how the bullet was fired
| but it is generally believed that it is
simply another of those sad cases of
Youngsters having firearms. Harold
and Rupert Wagner, sons of DR.. John
H. Wagner, the we'll known financier,
and president of a large irrigation
company, with youngster named
Lentz, are said to have done the
shooting but which boy fired the bul.
let that entered Mr.. Trujillos head
could not be ascertained.
Mr.. Trujillo was brought to the city
last night and physicians were rushed
to his bedside. DR.. David Knapp, the
penitentiary physician, found that the
bullet had entered the back of the
head two inches from the left ear and
| had torn the brain. 1t was deemed
best not to probe very deep for it. for
| fear of causing further damage. Mr..
! Trujillo is said to have been uncon-
scious since the accident.
When the Wagner boys were
brought home last night and Mrs.
Wagner heard of the accident, she
was overcome. Doctor Wagner had
to stay up all night with her admin
istering restoratives. The Wagner
boys also showed great emotion and
cried most of the night.
How it Happened.
When seen today Doctor Wagner
| showed the great strain under which
he had been since he learned of the
affair yesterday evening.
Il know I am subject to much criti-
cism and there are hundreds of peo-
pie in the city today Offering me adj
vice and telling me what | ought to
| have done. | am criticised for letting
| my boys have little rifles but the boys
are II and IA years of age and while
| like the average healthy American boy
! they have mischief in their makeup
they are not boys to harm a little
yellow dog voluntarily. When one of
| my boys heard that a dog was to be
sho. in town the other day he cried
and wanted to go out and prevent it.
From what they tell me they start
ed for Bishops ranch yesterday after
noon. Colonel Cunningham owns the
ranch and they visited there last
| Christmas. They had left rifle there
| in case it should be needed to kill CO.
votes and they took one on the trip.
They went to the ranch as I under
stand and got this rifle and with boy
named Lentz wandered around prac-
ticing target shooting I do not know
how far they got away from the ranch.
They tell me that Mr.. Trujillo passed
| by riding on horse. He was riding
near lumber wagon and he and the
man driving the team spoke to the
/ IVY dhu elohSu IuSlu WHdI luty WSIS
doing.
They answered that they were out
target shooting and were firing sticks
from their guns using blanks.
''The boys say the men kept on and
disappeared. The youngsters continu-
ed their amusement and decided later
on to go back to the ranch for drink
of water On their way they found a
horse without rider and few yards
from the animal they saw man lying
in a ditch. They thought he had fallen
from the horse and in lifting him up
saw blood oozing from his head. They
,said they imagined he had been
thrown from the horse and was injur-
ed They went back to the ranch and
There met the other man who had
Ebeen with Trujillo and he told them
what had happened. A bullet had
struck him in the back of the head
and he fell instantly from his horse.
1.-THE boys cannot explain how the ac-
cident happened, and say they had no
idea of firing in the direction of the
receding horseman."
There are several versions of the
affair and these will probably be heard
at hearing next week.