Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING.

The accidental shooting of the Wichita traveling man. Stevenson, near Newkirk yesterday was one of the most unfortunate happenings we have heard of in a long time. An account of it appears in our news columns in a dispatch from Wichita today, but we get some further particulars from Dr. O.T. Morey of this city, who as coroner was summoned to Newkirk to hold an inquest. It seems that about two miles east of Newkirk a passenger train on the new Santa Fe road was delayed on account of a washout. There was a pond at the side of the road on which some wild ducks had alighted. Stevenson had left the car and was sitting on the edge of the pond when the express agent took his gun, a 38 revolver, from the safe and going to the door of the car fired at the ducks, not seeing Stevenson. The bullet from the gun entered Stevenson’s breast and he died almost immediately. The express agent was wild with grief for the dreadful accident for which he felt himself responsible. After hearing the evidence, Dr. Morey concluded that an inquest was not necessary. -Ponca City Courier.