The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-06
NINETEEN HUNTERS
KILLED IN NEW YORK
Fifty two Wounded during Shooting
Season According to OFFICIAL
Reports.

Albany Dec. 4 Nineteen lives lost
and fifty.two persons wounded repre-.
seuted the toll Of the 1927 hunting
season IN New York State. Reports
received by the State Conservation
Commission show that twelve hunt
ers were Killed by the discharge OF
their own rifles aud seven by weap.
ons In the hands OF Others.
Game was unusually plentiful this
year and an exceptionally large num-
Der Of hunters were afield The larg
Ter part OF the seventy-one accidents
occurred in the pursuit Of birds, hab.
bites. squirrels and other small game.
Seventeen hunters were shot as the
result Of being mistaken for game.
fiye we're wounded when they walked
between a hunter aud the game, far.
ty.tive casualties resulted from the
accidental discharge Of firearms and
two accidents were attributed to
spent balls, the injured men hearing
no report OF a gun at the time they
were hit.
In total OF eleven cases reported.
seven fatal accidents resulted from
puuing loaded guns by the muzaie
over walls. through brush or across
the seats OF boats. The dropping of
guns caused sixteen. accidents, OF
which ak were fatal.
Climbing a tree with loaded gun
cost one hunter his life.
A hunter near Boonville slipped on
a wet stone and dropped his gun,
which was discharged causing death.
Near Germantown, Columbia Coun-
ty. a man fell upon his gun which
went off and killed him instantly.
Using his gun as club to separate
two fighting dogs, Cayuga County
sportsman was killed by the accident
al discharge Of the piece.
A squirrel hunter near Ithaca sat
down with his rife between his
knees. The weapon was accidentally
discharged and he was killed.
A Cazenoy!a Lake hunter paid
with his life for dragging a gun by
the muzzle through q brush fence.
In Madison County youth met
death when he rested the butt OF his
gun on the ground as no jumped OFF
a wall
One l7.year-old boy was killed as a
result OF his haste to shoot pheas-
ant. He was riding on load of hay
when he sighted TIE bird, and as he
pulled his gun towards himself it
went of and he was killed.
A man near Spencerport died from
wounds received by the discharge OF
gun he was pulling through q
fence.
A hunter found dead near White
hall IL believed TO have been Killed
by the accidental discharge OF .lis
weapon as he was crawling over a
lpie Of rocks.
A boy of 16 slipped while crossing
creek on log, his gun was dis
charged and no was killed.
Near Ticonderoga duck hunter
pplled his gun toward him, the trig'
ger caught Oh the seat of the boat,
dscharging the piece and causing
instant death
hunter was killed near Racquet
lake because his companion mistooK
his gray shirt for deer.
Two boys we're hunting partridges
one mistook the other for bird and
shot him dead.
While deer hunting near Goldsmith
man was accidentally shot ana
killed by his companion
After a days hunting and while at
target practice a young man handsa
| his gun to his father-in-law, at the
same time calling the latter's atten-
tion TO some object, As the elder
man took the gun he turned about,
the weapon went off by accident and
the son-in-law was killed
a hunter was found near Saranac
Lake with bullet wound In his
Ibead. He died from his injury.
In a jefferson county lumber camp
las a young man was about to shoot al
a bird the gun slipped and was dis
charged. the load killing another
person noar by.
While In the woods near Wells
Hamilton county. a hunter slipped
on the root Of tree, his falling CUR
was discharged and his companion