Nueces Co., TX - Obituary: Thomas Shields ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Don Brownlee 1 August 2005 USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** 27 June 1909 Dallas (TX) Morning News Corpus Christi, Tex., June 26 - About 8 o'clock last evening Thomas Shields, aged 14 years, was accidentally killed while hunting near the city limits. He had found a snake under a bush and, attempting to run it from its hiding place with the breech of the gun, accidentally discharged both barrels, the charges passing through his left hand and into his body in the region of the heart. Death was instantaneous.