Typed as spelled and written -
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 105
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 2, 1931

ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK BY
SHOT FROM FATHER'S GUN

Lott Resident, Obscurred by Tree
Slightly Injured While
Hunting.

H. A. Patton, Jr., of Lott, a brother of Mrs. T. M. Storey of Marlin, was injured slightly Tuesdat when struck accidentally by shot fired from the gun of his father, H. A. Patton, Sr., while they were hunting doves at a
tank near here.

Obscured by a tree at the time his father fired, young Patton was ppeppered on the head and chest by a few of the shot as the discharge scattered, but was not hurt seriously.

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