Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-12-17
HUNTING FATALITIES

seven loldlllltS ildpptiiSu NulihS ~
big game season in Maine which closed
at midnight Saturday night, but only
one person was killed in mistake for a
deer. One boy was accidently shot by
his brother, three men accidently shot
themselves. one was accidently shot by
his companion and one died in the
woods from exposure while on hunting
trip. Last season had is fatal acci-
dents, four persons being mistaken for
a deer one being mistaken for a bear.
three through the carelessness of the
hunter. six through the carelessness of
another hunter and two were lost in
the woods.
The Red Record
The fatal. accidents this year were as
follows:
The first fatality of the season oc-
CURED at Madison. Oct. 19, when Mylon
Richardson, the 9-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs, Harry Richardson. was
accidentally shot by his older brother,
Clifford L. Richardson, aged 13 years.
Clifford went out hunting for partridge
on the south side of the road near the
| house. while his brother apparently re-
maineG at home, but later walked
down the road. Clifford sighted d part
ridge and fired, being then three or
four rods from the road. When Cliff
ford came out he found his brother,
Mylon. lying in the road dead.
The body of Arthur Pratt, a sailor on
battleship stationed at a New Eng
land port. who had been visiting mis-
mother at Pennington and relatives at
Wilton while on a furlough, was found
Oct. "a beside the road near Weld. He
had heen apparently killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his own shotgun
in climbing fence while hunting deer.
Maurice Z. Bragdon of East Sullivan
while bird hunting in Frenchmau
Bay, Oct. p. was killed by the acci-
dental discharge Of his own gun while
he was striking a bird with the butt Of
the weapon.
Leon Coney, aged IS years. was shot
and killed near Saco, oct. 2S, by a
companion, William Donohue, who did
not know that the gun was loaded. The
charge of shot lodged in the arm, neck
and near the heart.
Jcdday Nachon, aged 2S years, a VOL
known lightweight wrestler, was
killed Oct. 81. while hunting in the vi
cinity Of Square pond in Shapleigh
Nachon. with his brother, Henry Va
chOn, and two other men came out OF
the woods to their automobile. Nachor
put a shotgun in the rear of the ma
chine and when he opened the door OF
the car, some baggage fell, striking
the gun and causing it to be discharged
INTO his body. He lived only 20 minutes
Mistaken for a deer, while hunting II
the Long" woods between Weld ano
| Cartharge, Nov. 8, William Palmer
manager of the creamery at Weld. was
! shot and died two hours later.
| Philias L'Abbee of Waterville met his
| death while on a hunting trip to BALD
| Mountain above Bingham. Somerset
| county, L'Abbee was lost in the woods
and died of exposure.
| Some of the Accidents
Some of the accidents which oc-
CURED during the big game season are
| as follows:
| Clifford Nottage. the nine -years-olC
son of the late Fred G. Nottage, was
shot while at play Oct. - near Wes
| Pennington. The shooting was the re.
suit of the accidental discharge of {
22-caliber rifle in the hands of one o,
the boys companions. and the bullet
, inflicted a severe wound in the arm.
| The young son Of Mr.. and Mrs. How
| ard Peabody of Houlton was shot il
! the leg by the accidental discharge ol
! his own gun. Oct. %.
| Hubert ]. Cross Of Augusta was sho
| at the Comber Camps, few mile
| from West Forks on the kennebeC
river Oct 26. by the accidental dis
! charge of shotgun in the hands o
I his son, the bullet entering the father:
/ hip.
Thomas A. Anderson of Pittsfeld, th'
! county attorney Of Somerset county
| was accidentally shot while on hunt
I ing trip to Lake Onawa, the bullet en-
tering the body near his heart. 1t i
/ thought that the bullet came from
revolver fired by some boys in th'
woods.
Elmer Blake, the 13year-old son o
Edward Blake Of Bath, suffered a bat
eunshot wound in his left leg near th
ankle Nov Q by the shotgun triSge'
4 catching on the side of a door, dis
4 charging it.
Fred Littlefield was accidentally sho
by Carleton Saunders near Albany
Nov. 9. while Saunders was partridg'
| shooting. The shot went into the mus
4 cles of Iittletield's arm, near the wrist
one in the ribs and several in the legs
Mrs Margaret Manning of Bangor
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