William H. Weaver (1911)

WEAVER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:51

The Saturday News
Watertown, South Dakota
Thursday, September 21, 1911
Page 7, Column 4

AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING

Murdo, Sept. 18. —Wm. H. Weaver, a farmer residing six miles south of Murdo, accidentally shot himself last Wednesday afternoon and lived only a short time after the accident. The accident happened about half a mile from his home and there were no eye witnesses so the full particulars are not known.

Mr. Weaver had started to walk over to the home of his brother, a couple of miles distant, and had taken with him his shot gun, which was a twelve gauge Remington hammerless pump gun, intending to use the gun to shoot any game that he might see on the way. He had gone but a shot time when he returned home and informed his wife that he had shot himself and told her to send for a physician. All that medical skill could do was done for him, but he lived only a short time after the doctor arrived.

After being shot the wounded man walked more than half mile to the house and this walk, together with the loss of blood from the fatal wound, had made him too weak to offer any explanation of how the accident happened. However, the gun was found near a fence and it is presumed that it was discharged in some manner while Mr. Weaver was climbing over the fence. The charge of shot entered the body just below the ribs on the left side, passed upward through the right lung, and lodged in the right shoulder.

The deceased leaves a wife and two small children, but the family is well provided for as they have considerable property besides insurance policies amount to $5,000.
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Transcriber's note: The deceased was born in Madison County per Polk County Marriage Record.

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