The Louisiana Intelligencer - James McEnery Accidentally Shoots Himself

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, August 5, 1868
Page 3, Column 1

SAD ACCIDENT.-On Saturday evening last the 1st inst. James McEnery, the 
son of the Hon. J.D. McEnery residing on Bayou de Siard, accidentally shot 
himself, resulting in his death within a few hours.
It appears that he wished to take a gun from the floor of the Overseer's 
house to go hunting and for that purpose picked it up by the muzzle, when by 
some unknown cause, one barrel of it exploded, lodging the entire contents 
in his abdomen. He was about fifteen years of age and a young man of fine 
promise. His family have the sympathies of the community in their sad loss.

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