Daily Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Kentucky
April 6, 1883
Remarkably Strange Accident
MADISON, IND., April 5 --- Monday last, John Banks, aged fifteen, accompanied by a younger brother, went out back of Emmons Cofield's farm, in Hunter's Bottom, Ky., to shoot blackbirds. In attempting to shoot, one cap snapped, which frightened the birds away, and he then discharged the other barrel of his shotgun into the trunk of the tree, and walked up and examined the result of the shot, and then began to load the empty barrel of his gun, when the old charge in the other barrel went off and passed up through the top of his head, killing him instantly. The gun had evidently held fire a length of time almost unprecedented.
Transcribed by: GenealogyGirl
Maysville, Kentucky
April 6, 1883
Remarkably Strange Accident
MADISON, IND., April 5 --- Monday last, John Banks, aged fifteen, accompanied by a younger brother, went out back of Emmons Cofield's farm, in Hunter's Bottom, Ky., to shoot blackbirds. In attempting to shoot, one cap snapped, which frightened the birds away, and he then discharged the other barrel of his shotgun into the trunk of the tree, and walked up and examined the result of the shot, and then began to load the empty barrel of his gun, when the old charge in the other barrel went off and passed up through the top of his head, killing him instantly. The gun had evidently held fire a length of time almost unprecedented.
Transcribed by: GenealogyGirl
Daily Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Kentucky
April 6, 1883
Remarkably Strange Accident
MADISON, IND., April 5 --- Monday last, John Banks, aged fifteen, accompanied by a younger brother, went out back of Emmons Cofield's farm, in Hunter's Bottom, Ky., to shoot blackbirds. In attempting to shoot, one cap snapped, which frightened the birds away, and he then discharged the other barrel of his shotgun into the trunk of the tree, and walked up and examined the result of the shot, and then began to load the empty barrel of his gun, when the old charge in the other barrel went off and passed up through the top of his head, killing him instantly. The gun had evidently held fire a length of time almost unprecedented.
Transcribed by: GenealogyGirl
Maysville, Kentucky
April 6, 1883
Remarkably Strange Accident
MADISON, IND., April 5 --- Monday last, John Banks, aged fifteen, accompanied by a younger brother, went out back of Emmons Cofield's farm, in Hunter's Bottom, Ky., to shoot blackbirds. In attempting to shoot, one cap snapped, which frightened the birds away, and he then discharged the other barrel of his shotgun into the trunk of the tree, and walked up and examined the result of the shot, and then began to load the empty barrel of his gun, when the old charge in the other barrel went off and passed up through the top of his head, killing him instantly. The gun had evidently held fire a length of time almost unprecedented.
Transcribed by: GenealogyGirl
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