Eastside Boy in Gun Mishap, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: The Caldwell Watchman-Progress, December 5, 1957
Date: September 2004



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Eastside Boy in Gun Mishap, The Caldwell Watchman-Progress
December 5, 1957

Jimmie Beckley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beckley who reside on the old
Humble place about two miles south of Columbia on the east side of the
Ouachita river, lost a finger and received other minor injuries when a gun 
he had was accidently discharged.

The 19-year-old youth, along with two other boys, a brother, Harris Ray
Beckley and Benny Joe Holmes of the Eastside, Saturday had gone to Lucar 
Ridge on Lafourche Lake to duck hunt.

Holmes and the younger Beckley youth decided to go squirrel hunting and 
left Jimmie in the boat to look for ducks.  Seeing one, Jimmie reached 
for his gun but forgot that it was loaded.  As he raised it up, the hammer
caught on a nail on the side of the boat adn went off, blowing one finger
off and some of the pellets grazing the skin on his neck.

He was rushed to the Conway hospital in Monroe for treatment and from last
reports had suffered quite a bit.

The Beckley family moved to this parish recently from Newelton.