Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-15

Davis who was lying on the ground
with bullet hole through his body
Davis died in short time. No inquest
was held.
On Nov 20, Otis weymouth OF Milo
% years old, was fatally wounded IN
the chest in the woods four miles from
Milo village by being shot,, it is be-
/ lieyed, by Lowell Perkins, who took
! Weymouth for a deer. Although Per-
kins did not admit that 1t was his shot
that fatally wounded his fellow towns
man. he thinks that there is posi-
bility that 1t did. Perkins statements
that he fired at deer are substan-
tiated by the tracks of two of the AMI
mails coming from opposite directions
near the spot where the shooting oc-
| CURED. 1t is thought possible that
Perkins may have fred at one deer and
that Weymouth, who was stalking the
other animal unseen, was in range of
| the bullet. AS far as can be learned
no other hunter was in the vicinity Of
] the shooting that AFTERNOON. Perkins
was arrested under the special Maine
statute covering fatal hunting acct
dents and arraigned before Judge
/ Hiram Gerrish OF the Piscataquis
/ municipal court. He pleaded not guilty
but probable cause was found and he
was bound over in the sum Of $1,000
bonds to await the action of the Pts
cataquis county grand jury. He gave
bail and was released.
On the afternoon of Nov. %. James
F. Collins, aged % years, was found
lying dead over a stone wall on the
Webster road near Lewiston One side
of his face was torn away by a gun
shot wound. and he had evidently been
dead for several hours. Mr.. Collins,
who was chauffeur. went hunting on
the day prior to his body being found
with Michael Coffey and Malcolm H.
Davis. two other chauffeurs. They be-
came separated in the woods and Coffey
and Davis returned to their homes at
Lewiston. It appeared that Collins
leaned his gun against the wall in or
der to climb over and in climbing over
slipped and knocked the gun down,
causing it to discharge.
On Nov. 20, the dead body of John
! BOSNIAN of Stockholm, SIS years of age
and unmarried, was found in Township
16, Range four. five miles beyond NADIA
waska lake, in Aroostook county, with
a bullet hole through the heart. Kos
man and Edward Anderson of Stock
holm went on a hunting trip but sepa-
rated. Anderson returned home and
expected to find that his companion had
also returned. A searching party was
! organized and set about to find the
missing hunter The party was led by
Anderson, the missing mans partner
and taken to where the two had sepa-
rated The tracks of BOSNIAN were
found in the snow and followed, and
after an hours walk from camp the
body of the unfortunate man was found
face downward, in about foot or snow
near McClusley's stream. The mans
tracks indicated that he had fallen over
a boulder, the butt of the rifle hitting
with such force as to discharge the
weapon and the bullet penetrated his
heart, death evidently having been in
Simultaneous.
On the afternoon of Dec /, at East
Machias, Cecil, the three-years-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Giles, was in
stantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun in the han6s of
his brother, three years older. Joseph
Harmon, brother of Mrs. Giles, had
returned from hunting trip and had
placed the shotgun in a corner of the
kitchen Mr.. Harmon says that he in
tended to take out the loaded shells and
thought that he had done so. The older
boy was playing with the gun when it
went off, just the younger child came
running through the door and the
charge of shot took effect in his side
and heart, killing him instantly.
On Dec. is John Ramsey of Great
Works. rs, was fatally wounded by the
accidental discharge of his rifle at a
camp six miles from Bradley, where he
was camping with party of friends
ne grasped the weapon by the muzzle
wnen the trigger caught and the bullet
entered his breast near the heart He
died -FOUR hours afterward. Ramsey is
survived by his wife and one child.
Other Accidents
Pooling with gun resulted in the
shooting in the chest of boy, Leonard
Thibodeau on the Midway road neal
Mfllinocket. Sunday. Sept. 81 He was
with several other lads from IL to IL
years of age and in fooling with ths
gun, IL was discharged, the bullet en-
terlng the chest, but not the lung.
4 Arnold Devee and Alvin Jipson
cousins, each IS years of age, of Milo
went hunting on Sept. 29 and separated
IN the woods. Devee, seeing something
move, fired. thinking it was game OF
some sort but it proved. to be his cousin
The charge of buckshot entered the
upper part of his body. The Jipsor
boy was able to walk nearly to his
| nome but had to be carried the last
part of the way. f
Fred Shea, IS years DID, son of. Mr.
ana Mrs. Michael Shea of Ellsworth
underwent an operation in a Bangor
hospital on Oct. Is in which one eye
was removed as the result of an acct,
dent near Ellsworth on the preceding
tday. Young Shea was hunting with his
brother. Charles Shea. They separated
and Charles scared up a partridge al
which he fired. the charge taking effect
IN the face of Fred. who happened ia
De IN the range screened by bushes
!. On Oct. 10, Thomas, the 16-years-old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Churchill of
wade Plantation, Aroostook county
was out In field with "a hound and