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Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 November 1, 2006, 8:40 pm

The Brunswick News; pg. 6 col. 2
[I forgot to source this record--Amy Hedrick]

YOUNG ARTHUR LUCAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED—Son of Owner of Brunswick Theaters 
Loses Life on Hunting Trip

Arthur Lucas, Jr., 22, son of a member of the firm Lucas and Jenkins, 
operators of the Ritz and Bijou theaters here, is dead from shotgun wounds 
accidentally received when a gun in the hands of his brother, John, was 
discharged while on a hunting trip near Point Peter, Camden county, shortly 
after 8 o’clock this morning.

The Lucas youths, accompanied by two other youths from near Atlanta, and Mrs. 
Lucas were spending the Thanksgiving holidays at the Lucas coastal resort at 
Point Peter when the tragedy occurred this morning.

L.F. Arnow, postmaster at St. Marys, Ga., in reporting the accident this 
morning stated that John and Arthur Lucas, accompanied by their two 
companions, were on a hunt in the vicinity of St. Marys when the shooting took 
place.

“John was standing by the side of their automobile,” Mr. Arnow stated, “and 
was in the act of unloading his shotgun in preparation of an automobile trip 
into St. Marys for the purpose of obtaining additional ammunition when his gun 
accidentally went off.”  His older brother was standing nearby and the entire 
discharge from the shell struck him in the right side of his abdomen, 
according to Mr. Arnow.

The wounded youth was placed in the automobile and he was rushed to St. Marys 
where upon arrival physicians pronounced him dead.

Mrs. Lucas, mother of the youths, was at Point Peter when she was notified of 
the fatality.  The father, Arthur Lucas, was at his home in Atlanta.

The body, accompanied by members of the family, left St. Marys this morning 
for Jacksonville where it will be prepared for removal to Atlanta this 
afternoon.

Point Peter, where Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins maintains a summer and winter coastal 
Georgia home, is in Camden county.  It has been a popular place for the Lucas 
youths and their parents for several years.


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