The first fatal hunting accident of the season in eastern Ohio occurred yesterday afternoon near Cadiz when Chris Fred Bauknecht, 30, Martins Ferry millworker, was killed almost instantly as he accidentally discharged his shotgun.
Bauknecht was using the butt end of the weapon to keep his dog out of a hole into which a skunk had crept. The dog tried to burrow its way around the gun and in the scuffle that ensued the weapon was discharged.
The charge took effect in Bauknecht's breast, several of the pellets, it is believed, entering his heart.
The fatal shooting occurred on the Bushby farm, in Archer township, north of Cadiz. With Bauknecht on the hunting expedition were his brother, John, and four other millworkers.
They could not believe that he was dead and carried the lifeless body more then a mile in the direction of a doctor's office after the shooting. Coroner Toland, of Harrison county, later viewed the remains and authorized the removal of the body to Martins Ferry.
The hunting accident victim is survived by his wife, Mrs. Miriam Bauknecht and three children, Freda, Edna and Elizabeth. He is also survived by two brothers, John and Albert, both of Martins Ferry, and two sisters, Miss Freda and Mrs. Adolph Bluthardt, also of Martins Ferry.
The accident victim was a first cousin of Walter Bauknecht, well known Bellaire undertaker.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 17, 1925
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Funeral services of the late Chris Bauknecht, who was killed Monday on a hunting trip, will be conducted from St. Paul's Lutheran church this city Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be in charge of Rev. Henry Neuimann and internment will be in Weeks cemetery.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. 18, 1925
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Bauknecht was using the butt end of the weapon to keep his dog out of a hole into which a skunk had crept. The dog tried to burrow its way around the gun and in the scuffle that ensued the weapon was discharged.
The charge took effect in Bauknecht's breast, several of the pellets, it is believed, entering his heart.
The fatal shooting occurred on the Bushby farm, in Archer township, north of Cadiz. With Bauknecht on the hunting expedition were his brother, John, and four other millworkers.
They could not believe that he was dead and carried the lifeless body more then a mile in the direction of a doctor's office after the shooting. Coroner Toland, of Harrison county, later viewed the remains and authorized the removal of the body to Martins Ferry.
The hunting accident victim is survived by his wife, Mrs. Miriam Bauknecht and three children, Freda, Edna and Elizabeth. He is also survived by two brothers, John and Albert, both of Martins Ferry, and two sisters, Miss Freda and Mrs. Adolph Bluthardt, also of Martins Ferry.
The accident victim was a first cousin of Walter Bauknecht, well known Bellaire undertaker.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 17, 1925
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Funeral services of the late Chris Bauknecht, who was killed Monday on a hunting trip, will be conducted from St. Paul's Lutheran church this city Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be in charge of Rev. Henry Neuimann and internment will be in Weeks cemetery.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. 18, 1925
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The first fatal hunting accident of the season in eastern Ohio occurred yesterday afternoon near Cadiz when Chris Fred Bauknecht, 30, Martins Ferry millworker, was killed almost instantly as he accidentally discharged his shotgun.
Bauknecht was using the butt end of the weapon to keep his dog out of a hole into which a skunk had crept. The dog tried to burrow its way around the gun and in the scuffle that ensued the weapon was discharged.
The charge took effect in Bauknecht's breast, several of the pellets, it is believed, entering his heart.
The fatal shooting occurred on the Bushby farm, in Archer township, north of Cadiz. With Bauknecht on the hunting expedition were his brother, John, and four other millworkers.
They could not believe that he was dead and carried the lifeless body more then a mile in the direction of a doctor's office after the shooting. Coroner Toland, of Harrison county, later viewed the remains and authorized the removal of the body to Martins Ferry.
The hunting accident victim is survived by his wife, Mrs. Miriam Bauknecht and three children, Freda, Edna and Elizabeth. He is also survived by two brothers, John and Albert, both of Martins Ferry, and two sisters, Miss Freda and Mrs. Adolph Bluthardt, also of Martins Ferry.
The accident victim was a first cousin of Walter Bauknecht, well known Bellaire undertaker.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 17, 1925
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Funeral services of the late Chris Bauknecht, who was killed Monday on a hunting trip, will be conducted from St. Paul's Lutheran church this city Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be in charge of Rev. Henry Neuimann and internment will be in Weeks cemetery.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. 18, 1925
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Bauknecht was using the butt end of the weapon to keep his dog out of a hole into which a skunk had crept. The dog tried to burrow its way around the gun and in the scuffle that ensued the weapon was discharged.
The charge took effect in Bauknecht's breast, several of the pellets, it is believed, entering his heart.
The fatal shooting occurred on the Bushby farm, in Archer township, north of Cadiz. With Bauknecht on the hunting expedition were his brother, John, and four other millworkers.
They could not believe that he was dead and carried the lifeless body more then a mile in the direction of a doctor's office after the shooting. Coroner Toland, of Harrison county, later viewed the remains and authorized the removal of the body to Martins Ferry.
The hunting accident victim is survived by his wife, Mrs. Miriam Bauknecht and three children, Freda, Edna and Elizabeth. He is also survived by two brothers, John and Albert, both of Martins Ferry, and two sisters, Miss Freda and Mrs. Adolph Bluthardt, also of Martins Ferry.
The accident victim was a first cousin of Walter Bauknecht, well known Bellaire undertaker.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 17, 1925
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Funeral services of the late Chris Bauknecht, who was killed Monday on a hunting trip, will be conducted from St. Paul's Lutheran church this city Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be in charge of Rev. Henry Neuimann and internment will be in Weeks cemetery.
from: The Bellaire Daily Leader, Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. 18, 1925
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