Butts County GaArchives News.....Col. Marcus Beck - A sad accident October 1888
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Middle Ga Argus
A SAD ACCIDENT

COL. MARCUS BECK

Col. Marcus Beck, while hunting in Tennessee last week happened to the 
misfortune of accidentally shooting his little cousin a twelve-year-old boy.  
In attempting to shoot a squirrel that was jumping from a tree his gun was 
prematurely discharged, the load of shot lodging in the left breast of the boy 
just above the heart.  The two were in the woods alone but Col. Beck quickly 
summoned help and carried the little sufferer to his home a mile away where the 
best surgical aid of Knoxville was called.  Col. Beck left on the following 
morning and at that time there were some hope of his recovery through severely 
wounded.  We deeply sympathize with them in their dire misfortune.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of October 2, 1888


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