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The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Nov. 27, 1924

SHOOTING CAUSES

LOSS OF BOY'S LEG

Eddie Bauer, fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Bauer, was shot in the leg last Sunday in the Bauer coulee, eighteen miles southwest of Ritzville. With some of the Kramer boys he had gone down the coulee and took his gun along. One of the smaller boys asked for it in shooting at rabbits. A rabbit jumped up and the lad excitedly shot the gun, or the gun went off, and the load struck Eddie in the calf of the right leg.

He was taken to Spokane Tuesday morning where it was found necessary to amputat...

 

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