New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-02
HUNTER KILLS TWO MEN
Wounds Third So Badly That
Leg Is Cut Off.
MIST00K THEM FOR DEER
Heard a Noise in the Brush
and Blazed Awry in
the Dark

Mays Landing. y. j.. Nov Eager 10
have shot at a deer which he supposed
was coming down an unused road in the
gloom Of the early dawn to-day. Charles
Norcross. of Iona. y. j.. fired into q party
Of four other hunters. killing two and
seriously wounding third.
The dead are Conrad Steeman. twenty
eight. and John Yost. thirty-two Years old.
William Jarvis was so badly injured that
his leg amputated in the hospital here.
All tho men were from PleasantvilIe. y. J.
Norcross is in tho Atlantic County jail in
this place awaiting the action Of the cor
oner.
According 10 Norcrosss statement made
TO a Justice OF tho peace he was standing
behind the underbrush at the side OF
road when he heard a noise. Not thinking
that any other hunters were In the vicinity
and believing that the sound came from
a deer walking down the road. Norcross
says he raised his gun and fired one barrel
Of bgckshot In the direction OF the noise
Before he could lower his gun there was
shrek. Jumping out Of the underbrush lie
was Mortified to see three men lying in the
road. Realizing the terrible mistake he
had made, Norcross went after the other
members of his party and the three IN
jured men were placed In the automobile
and rushed to Pleasantville. one Of the
victims died I'm six minutes and the other
lived twenty-five minutes.
Norcross comes from respectable fam
lily. He is said to be a man Of good habits
is married and has two children. The VIC
tins were strangers TO him
WaHpcsdaN Ia oplv 6nV of the week
In November wher hunting Is permitted
| and to-day the woods were full OF sports
men. The three victims and two others
had been out all night in the woods. and
early this morning they were proceeding 10
a deer run. where they expected to enjoy
some shooting when shot was fired from
somewhere I'm the brush on the roadside
Yost. Steelman and Jarvis fell. fost and
Steelman had been shot in the back witt
buckshot. and Jarvis I'm the hip.
Sheriff Enos L. Johnson, when Informed
Of the shooting. started out in his automo
bile and arrested Norcross. who made ne
attempt to escape. lie was on the verge
OF collapse over the accident.
Hackettstown, y. J., Nov. l.-Willian
Davis. twenty years old. was dressing hi
first rabbit Of tho day this morning wher
he dropped his loaded shotgun. The charg'
exploded. and the shot tore his left shoul
der so badly that IT is probable that ampu
tation will he necessary. Davis was re
moved TO a hospital at MorristoWn
West Chester. Penn, Nov. lone maj
was killed and another was seriously III
iured while rabbit hunting I'm this count
to-day. William Harrison. of Glen Moore
blew of the top OF his head while cIimoin'
over a fence with a loaded gun when wa
accidentally discharged. Howard Kerr
East Bradford Township. received chare
OF shot in his legs when William Burnet'
his companion. attempted to Kill rabbit
| Willlamsport Penn. Nov. line mrs
day of the hunting season In Lycomih'
County was productive Of fatal acclden'
While George Warner, OF Mill Creek IoWn
ship. and John Hall were hunting raoo'
tho latter accidentally shot Warner. bio"
ing his face away and killing him IN
SANITY.