Butts-Henry County GaArchives News.....Leon Lane - Killed January 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 9, 2011, 7:59 am Butts County Progress January 1907 Leon Lane – Killed Accidentally Killed by Pistol in McDonough Mother Was Rocking Son to Sleep as Young Lady Toying With Pistol, Fires It – Had Pistol in Cloak Pocket. Christmas night about 6 o’clock Miss Minnie McGaritey, while out serenading with a party of young people about four miles east of McDonough, accidentally discharged a pistol at the home of D. G. Land, the bullet striking the nine year old son, Leon, in the head inflicting a mortal wound from which he died at 2 o’clock Thursday morning. Miss McGairtey had on an overcoat of Jack Turner’s and he had a 32-caliber Smith & Wesson hammerless pistol in the pocket of the overcoat. The young lady knew nothing of the mechanism of the pistol and pulled the trigger of the pistol with it pointed toward the head of the boy, who was sitting in his mother’s lap as she was rocking his brother to sleep. The bullet struck him in the top of the head on the head on the right side and it ranged downward, coming out on the left side just back of he ear. The accident is greatly deplored by ball. Both the young lady and the young boy are members of two of Henry county’s old and highly esteemed families. Butts County Progress Week of January 7, 1907 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/leonlane2959nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb