Lane County OR Archives News.....Skull Flattens Bullet October 30, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 30, 1904
Benton Farmer Accidentally Shotby Boy with Small Rifle
Corvallis,Or.,Oct.29-(Speial)- A bullet from a 22 calber target rifle in the 
hands of two town boys peirced the hatband and flattened itself against the 
forehead of James M.Herron this morning. The ball struck Herron an inch and a 
half above the right eye, and passing around the to a point slightly over the 
right temple,lodged under the skin. It seems to have come from almost in 
front, and the resistance of the hatband and the strength of the skull are 
supposed to have kept the bullet out of Mr.Herron's brain.
Herron was on the way to town on his wagon and two boys of 10 or 12 years were 
hunting with target rifles somewhere along the highway.Herron neither saw them 
nor heard the shot, but he explains that he suddenly felt a bump on his head 
as though truck with a club. A moment later the blood began to stream down 
into his face, and he hurried to town,a mile distnat,where a doctorremoved the 
ball and dressed the wound.
The Sheriff wen tout and got the boys, who explain that they neither saw the 
man nor knew that he had been shot,which was probably the fact.The lads were 
Edwin and Dean Dilley.

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