Wichita County, TX - Obituaries - Bob Shirley ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* Wichita Daily Times May 14 1907 While Two Boys are Scuffling Over Possession of a Gun a Looker-on is Shot. Decatur, Tex., May 10. --Yesterday afternon[sic] about dark, at a point about two miles south of Decatur, Bob Shirley, the 12-year-old son of a renter on Bob Neilson's farm, was instantly killed by the discharge of a gun which was being scuffled over by two other boys, Worthington Renshaw and --- Pitts[sic]. _The dead boy was standing, watching the struggle, when suddenly the gun was accidentally fired, the heavy load tearing away the upper part of his head.