Cause of death: Infection caused by gunshot wounds of hand and leg.
Lester Baugess 23 Is Shot As He Is Working In Field
North Wilkesboro June 13 (AP)
Sheriff W B Somers was investigating the shooting today of Lester Baugess, 23, who was shot in the right hand and leg today as he worked in the field. The sheriff said he had been told that the youth's father, Joe Baugess, a substantial Trap Hill township farmer, had fired through a crack in the granary - the shot striking his son. No explanation of the shooting was available.
(Newspaper article provided courtesy of fellow contributor, Linda Albright.)
Cause of death: Infection caused by gunshot wounds of hand and leg.
Lester Baugess 23 Is Shot As He Is Working In Field
North Wilkesboro June 13 (AP)
Sheriff W B Somers was investigating the shooting today of Lester Baugess, 23, who was shot in the right hand and leg today as he worked in the field. The sheriff said he had been told that the youth's father, Joe Baugess, a substantial Trap Hill township farmer, had fired through a crack in the granary - the shot striking his son. No explanation of the shooting was available.
(Newspaper article provided courtesy of fellow contributor, Linda Albright.)
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