News article:"14 Year Old Garner Doyle Accidentally Shoots Himself"/Bossier Parish/LA
Source: The Monroe News-Star 
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 
Date: Dec. 1999


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Friday, July 29, 1910
Page 5, Column 1

RIFLE CLAIMS A BOY VICTIM
GARNER DOYLE, AGED 14, MEETS TRAGIC DEATH.
Accidentally Shoots Himself - Ball Entered Kidney - 
Lingered Several Hours After Being Wounded.
Shreveport, July 29.-The Times says: The remains of Garner Doyle, the 
14-year-old boy, who was accidentally shot and killed near Gahagan, 
Wednesday afternoon, were brought to the city yesterday morning and are 
now lying at the Wellman Undertaking parlors, awaiting the arrival of 
his mother, who is in Knoxville, Iowa.
The little boy, who is well-known in this city, having attended school here 
at the last term, had been in swimming. He had got out and was dressing. 
Somehow he dropped some cartridges from the ground and was searching for 
them, using the butt of his rifle a 22-calibre, to move the grass aside.
In some manner; possibly due to the trigger catching on the weeds, the gun 
was discharged and the ball entered the boy's hand, passed into the body, 
entering the kidneys and ploughed through.
Several negro section hands placed the little sufferer on a hand car and 
made a record trip to Gahagan, where the boy's father was summoned.
All that medical skill could do for him was done. He was conscious two or 
three hours and finally told his father and other relatives that he was 
going to die. He then lapsed into unconsciousness and quietly passed away.
The boy's mother, now Mrs. Auten, resides in this city. She is on a visit 
in Knoxville, Iowa. She was telegraphed for, and will reach the city 
Saturday. The body will be held until that time.
It is very probable the funeral will be held here, interment in one of the 
local cemeteries.
The family is well-known in Shreveport, and much sympathy is extended the 
heart- broken father and mother.
Young Garner Doyle was a nephew of Mrs. S.R. Wright, of Grammont street, and
her friends sympathize with her deeply because of the untimely death of 
this bright youth.

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