The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-28
LEAVES DAUGHTERS
GRAVE To FIND SON
DEAD IN HOSPITAL
While Mother Attends Funeral
Only Son of Mrs. George
Weisiger Kills Himself With
Pistol
Child Left in Charge of Aunt
Slips Away and Finding
Weapon Meets Death---Par-
ent and Her Mother Pros
trated

Leaving new made grave in the
family burying ground in Powhatan
county into which they had just seen
laid the body of their fifteen-year old
daughter, Elizabeth. who died Thurs
day night of typhoid fever, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Abbott Weisiger return
ed last night to their home at sol
East Leigh street. to find the dead
body of their only son, Abbott, aged
eight years, who yesterday afternoon
accidentally shot himself while han
ding a pistol at the home of his aunt
Mrs. G.. G.. Boisseau. 635 North Eighth
street
The grtef-stricken parents. met al
the door Of their home by Mrs. Bots
seau. who. in broken voice. told them
of the new tragedy which had visited
them, were Frustrated. Both Mrs
/ Weisiger and Mrs. Boisseau last night
were hysterical. and nothing that
could be done or said by kind AND
sympathixing neishbors would give
/ them comfort.
! Had Forebodings.
Mrs Weisiger, wishing TO spare hei
/ boy the experience of witnessing tbs
/ funeral Of his sister. yet feeling "a
vague foreboding. almost Fremont;
tion, of some terrible blow to fall
/ left home yesterday afternoon only
after calling the boys aunt and re
ceiving. her promise she would watcf
over the lad and keep him safe.
Take good care of my darling,
Mrs. Weisiger told her. at Is the frs
] time l have ever gone away and lef
] him"
Al re Sutwsewu.- the better to watct
/ over the boy and TO keep his thoughts
from the funeral visit of his parents
/ to their old home in the country. wen
/ TO the Weisiger home, barely a bloch
] from her own. taking with her hel
! two song. Capers, aged twelve. anG
/ Francis, aged nine, to keep Abbot
company.
/ Fer a time the boys played together
at the weisiger home. Then two o
them. Abbott Weisiger and Francis
| Boisseau, slipped away, despite tn,
/ watchfuiness of Mrs. Boisseau. ant
went TO the Bo!sseau home. Capers
| quickly discovering their absence wen
In search Of the younger boys. ant
came upon them at his home Jus
after the sound Of the fatal shot haC
startled the ne.ghborhood.
He found Abbott In an upstair
room. a bullet wound in the lowe
left side. and the pistol. which hat
been taken by Abbott from a burea,
drawer. IN which II had been hidden
clutched tightly in his hand Francis
badly frightened. stood in a hallwa,
crying:
II told him not TO take the PTS
toll: not 10 play with IT.
Carries Boy Down Steps.
Capers yBoisseau, realizing hi
cousin had been seriously hurt, though
4 ne saw but little blood. only a tin
stream trickling from the wound il
the side. tried to help the injured bo
downstairs
Colored women. who live in the rea
OF the Boisseau home and who ha,
heard the shot, came up as the bo
was trying to assist the victim Of tn
shot TO the first floor They told hin
to hurry for doctor.
News of the tragedy speed to Mrs
Boisseau who had the City home am
hulance called. It responded In
few minutes and DR. Golfer. deciarin
1.-THE wound was very dangerous one
hurried the boy to Grace hospisa
Death came within few seconds afte
the boy reached that institution
How the accident occurred was toll
Immediately after the tragedy b
Francis Boisseau to his brother
Capers. who last night gave the de
tails to reporters.
After searching the Boisseau HON
Abbott and Francis went upstairs I
play Abbott found the pistol. a 3
caiiber. six shooter. in bureau draw
err. where II had been hidden but a fe,
days before after Abbott had playe
with It.
/ The boy had been warned he mus
not touch II and when 1t was burie
Iunder several articles in the burea
there was no idea he would find 1
Would Make 1t Safe.
When Abbott took the pistol fror
the drawer Francis asked him 10 pu
1T away. Abbott declined saying h
wanted to play with IT. He said h
would make ii so 1t couldn't shoot hir
by taking the bullets out.
This the boy attempted to do whe
the gun was discharged. The DO
held the pistol muzzle .downwar
lagainst his left side as he worked q
the gun in the endeavor to extract tn
lshells. What caused the exploso
of the cartridge which caused hi
death may never be. known, but II
believed to have been due to ia
given while the boy was working a
one of the shells.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weisiger, who ar
natives of Virginia. came to Rich
mond about eleven months ago fror
New York, where they had lived fo
several years. Their family consiste
4 of themselves and the two childre
whose deaths came so close togethe
Mr.. weisiger is employed az a book
keeper by the Davis Shoe company