Conservation Commission 247 



The accidents which occurred to small game hunters were as 

 follows: Judson Warner, of the town of Chenango, Broome 

 county, while hunting woodchucks in company with J. Bruce 

 Allen, in the town of Barker, August 27th, was mistaken for a 

 woodchuck hy his friend, fired at and fatally wounded. Warner 

 died in the Binghamton hospital August 29th. 



Mark Hill, of Berrington, duck hunting on South Lake, near 

 Lyndhurst, was accidentally shot by his companion, named Van 

 Coot, the wound resulting fatally. The men had stepped from 

 their boat and were unloading their guns on shore when Van 

 Coot's weapon was accidentally discharged. 



Guy Meyers, of Model City, Niagara county, was accidentally 

 shot and killed by his companion on a bird hunting trip in Oc- 

 tober. A charge of bird shot entered his hip at close range. 



Benjamin J. Hill, the 15-year-old son of Benjamin Hill, of 

 Cohoes, was accidentally shot and killed by another lad named 

 McGraw, with whom he was hunting along the Mohawk opposite 

 Cohoes. 



Fern Dunsheen, the 8-year-old daughter of Clarence Dunsheen, 

 of Sidney Center, Delaware county, while out berrying, was mis- 

 taken for a woodchuck by a hunter, shot and fatally wounded. 

 The child expired in the hospital at Oneonta. 



John McMullen, of Painted Post, hunting in the woods in the 

 vicinity of that village October 1, was accidentally shot in the 

 leg, back and wrist by his companion, Leo Craig, with a shot gun. 



Halsey Le Grange, of Prattsburg, was seriously injured hunt- 

 ing with two companions, by the accidental discharge of his own 

 shot gun, which occurred while he was climbing over a log. 



Bertram Casler, of Little Falls, was accidentally shot by his 

 brother, John Casler, when they were hunting partridge near St. 

 Johnsville. The shot entered the knee and body. Not fatal. 



John Sloane, of Bed Mills, hunting ducks around Big Island, 

 St. Lawrence river, was shot in the left foot by the accidental dis- 

 charge of his own gun. The gun slipped on the boat seat. 



Walter Weaver and Merritt Babcock, of Petersburg, were acci- 

 dentally shot near that place October 1. Weaver stumbled, drop- 

 ping his shot gun, which was discharged, wounding Weaver in 

 the shoulder and his companion in the knee. 



Mrs. Cady, of Ballston, was accidentally shot near Harrisburg 



