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H anting- Casualties — 1 9 05 



The Commission is indebted to Mr. W. E. Wolcott, Secretary of the 

 Black River Fish and Game Protective Association, for the following list 

 of Adirondack hunting casualties: 



July 11. Phillip Pervelle, aged eight years, mistaken for a deer in the 

 woods near Danby, St. Lawrence county, and fatally shot. 



September 1. John Moroughan, Jr., aged seventeen, of Harrisville, 

 Lewis county, accidentally shot and killed by a companion while deer 

 hunting near that place. 



September 4. Thomas Gifford, aged seventeen, of Gloversville, Fulton 

 county, accidentally shot and killed by a companion while deer hunting 

 near Northville. 



September 10. Varisse Varien, age not given, of Tupper Lake, Frank- 

 lin count}-, accidentally shot in the hip while hunting in the Moose Creek 

 district. A companion's gun was discharged by a branch striking the 

 trigger. 



September 17. Mrs. D. L. Jordan, of Freeport, Nassau county, blinded 

 in one eye by a bullet rebounding from a rock or tree in the forest while 

 hunting deer near Twitchell Lake. 



September 27. Peter LeFever, aged fourteen, killed by the bursting of 

 his gun while deer hunting at Moose River, near Boonville. 



October 3. George Mosher, Jr., aged twenty-one, of Thurman, Warren 

 county, fatally wounded by a companion who mistook him for a deer while 

 hunting near West Stony Creek. 



October 5. Alonzo Dudley, a well known guide, drowned in Long 

 Lake while on a hunting expedition. 



October 10. Roy Sanders, of Herkimer, Herkimer county, wounded by 

 the accidental discharge of a gun while deer hunting at Wilmurt. 



October 16. Milton D. Stone, Jamestown, Chautauqua county, 

 instantly killed while hunting, by the accidental discharge of a companion's 

 gun. 



October 22. Leon Bates, a boy residing in Ilion, Herkimer county, 

 accidently shot while hunting near his home — not serious. 

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