The Monroe News-Star - 
Larkin Child Accidentally Shoots Grandfather Tosam Leger

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Tuesday, February 1, 1910
Page 1, Column 5

KILLS GRANDFATHER.

Estherwood, La., Jan. 31. - A deplorable accident, the accidental killing 
of his grandfather by his six-year-old son, occurred at Morse Station 
Sunday morning.
The little fellow is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Larkin. His 
grandfather, Tosam Leger, 70 years old, invited him to go hunting. The 
pair went off in the woods, the old man in the lead and the little child 
trailing close behind. The little fellow got hold of the gun and began 
to play with it, when the trigger got caught in some huckleberry bushes 
and the weapon was discharged. The load entered Mr. Leger's back and he 
fell dead. The butt struck the child in the face almost tearing the eye 
from its socket.

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