Jackson-Perry County IL Archives News.....WILLISVILLE BOY VICTIM OF SHOT GUN December 14, 1921
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Murphysboro Daily Independent December 14, 1921
 
    Millard ROBINSON, 16, son of Mr. & Mrs. Martin ROBINSON of Willisville, was
accidentally shot by George BALDWIN, 16, half a mile from town, when he jokingly
said:  "I believe I will shoot the dog."  The shotgun the boy aimed at the dog
discharged.  The charge shot away a part of the flesh of the Robinson boy's
right leg between the knee and the hip.  The boy's mother and the principal of
his school brought him to Murphysboro and to St. Andrew's Hospital at 8:11 via
the M & O last night.  

    The boy had met the little Baldwin boy early in the afternoon when going to
school.  He was asked to go hunting and failed to go to school.  Ambulance men
asked the boy if the dog was killed.  "Nope," he said.  

    It is reported that the Willisville doctor who treated the boy shortly after
the shooting gave him morphine but did not administer lockjaw serum.  The mother
was told at Willisville that she might expect amputation of the leg.

    The Murphysboro physician receiving the case told the mother he believed he
could save the boy's leg.  The charge shot through big arteries and the boy was
made weak from loss of blood.  This is the fourth accident of the hunt hear
Murphysboro this season.



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