IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1886

FATAL ACCIDENT

Young Jas. Holbrook, aged 16, accidentally shot himself through the head at his father's ranch on White Bird last Thursday evening.  The lad was out with a 44 Winchester and was sitting on a mowing machine awaiting his fathers arrival and resting the gun against the machine.  As his father approached he rose to meet him, but by some unaccountable means the machine moved and discharged the rifle, the ball entering the left eye and coming out at the back of the head.  Death was almost instantaneous.  The body was buried Saturday at the Fairview Cemetery.

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