GUN SHOT IS FATAL TO CHILD
Terrible Tragedy Near Tisch Mills, Result of Accident, on Friday.
BOY FIRED FATAL SHOT
Emma Valenta Killed While on Her Way Home from School - Detailed Story of the Tragedy.
Accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of fourteen year old Wenzel Siels resulted in the death of little Emma the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georg Valenta of Stangelville Friday night. The tragedy was due to careless handling of the weapon, the trigger of which had been raised by the lad unconsciously while maneuvering to get a shot at a rabbit. Children coming home from school among whom was the Valenta child, stopped by the roadside where the boy had chased his quarry and watched the operations of the lad in endeavoring to locate the game. The little girl accosted the lad and latter probably with no malicious intent rassed(sic) the gun and the next instant there was a report and the girl sank to the ground dead.
The boy unable at first to grasp the full meaning of his deed bent over the form of his dead companion and endeavored to stop the flow of blood from the girl's breast where the entire charge of shot at eight paces had entered. The remaining children fled pell mell from the scene and left the two alone. Incoherent and excited stories told by the little ones soon brought the parents and their neighbors to the road side and the little form cold in death was taken to the home by her grief stricken parents. All efforts at resuscitation were fruitless and the indications were that the child died instantly.
An inquest was held on Friday evening the coroner being summoned from Kewaunee and a verdict to the effect that the child had met death in an accidental manner, was rendered. The boy is at home with his parents and is overcome with greif(sic) and remorse. Close inquiry into the matter will be made but it is probable that the tragedy was due to accident. Stangellsville is a little burg in Kewaunee county just over the line and the scene of the shooting is three miles east of the village of Tisch Mills. The families are well known to Manitowoc county residents.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, November 7, 1904.
Terrible Tragedy Near Tisch Mills, Result of Accident, on Friday.
BOY FIRED FATAL SHOT
Emma Valenta Killed While on Her Way Home from School - Detailed Story of the Tragedy.
Accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of fourteen year old Wenzel Siels resulted in the death of little Emma the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georg Valenta of Stangelville Friday night. The tragedy was due to careless handling of the weapon, the trigger of which had been raised by the lad unconsciously while maneuvering to get a shot at a rabbit. Children coming home from school among whom was the Valenta child, stopped by the roadside where the boy had chased his quarry and watched the operations of the lad in endeavoring to locate the game. The little girl accosted the lad and latter probably with no malicious intent rassed(sic) the gun and the next instant there was a report and the girl sank to the ground dead.
The boy unable at first to grasp the full meaning of his deed bent over the form of his dead companion and endeavored to stop the flow of blood from the girl's breast where the entire charge of shot at eight paces had entered. The remaining children fled pell mell from the scene and left the two alone. Incoherent and excited stories told by the little ones soon brought the parents and their neighbors to the road side and the little form cold in death was taken to the home by her grief stricken parents. All efforts at resuscitation were fruitless and the indications were that the child died instantly.
An inquest was held on Friday evening the coroner being summoned from Kewaunee and a verdict to the effect that the child had met death in an accidental manner, was rendered. The boy is at home with his parents and is overcome with greif(sic) and remorse. Close inquiry into the matter will be made but it is probable that the tragedy was due to accident. Stangellsville is a little burg in Kewaunee county just over the line and the scene of the shooting is three miles east of the village of Tisch Mills. The families are well known to Manitowoc county residents.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, November 7, 1904.
GUN SHOT IS FATAL TO CHILD
Terrible Tragedy Near Tisch Mills, Result of Accident, on Friday.
BOY FIRED FATAL SHOT
Emma Valenta Killed While on Her Way Home from School - Detailed Story of the Tragedy.
Accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of fourteen year old Wenzel Siels resulted in the death of little Emma the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georg Valenta of Stangelville Friday night. The tragedy was due to careless handling of the weapon, the trigger of which had been raised by the lad unconsciously while maneuvering to get a shot at a rabbit. Children coming home from school among whom was the Valenta child, stopped by the roadside where the boy had chased his quarry and watched the operations of the lad in endeavoring to locate the game. The little girl accosted the lad and latter probably with no malicious intent rassed(sic) the gun and the next instant there was a report and the girl sank to the ground dead.
The boy unable at first to grasp the full meaning of his deed bent over the form of his dead companion and endeavored to stop the flow of blood from the girl's breast where the entire charge of shot at eight paces had entered. The remaining children fled pell mell from the scene and left the two alone. Incoherent and excited stories told by the little ones soon brought the parents and their neighbors to the road side and the little form cold in death was taken to the home by her grief stricken parents. All efforts at resuscitation were fruitless and the indications were that the child died instantly.
An inquest was held on Friday evening the coroner being summoned from Kewaunee and a verdict to the effect that the child had met death in an accidental manner, was rendered. The boy is at home with his parents and is overcome with greif(sic) and remorse. Close inquiry into the matter will be made but it is probable that the tragedy was due to accident. Stangellsville is a little burg in Kewaunee county just over the line and the scene of the shooting is three miles east of the village of Tisch Mills. The families are well known to Manitowoc county residents.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, November 7, 1904.
Terrible Tragedy Near Tisch Mills, Result of Accident, on Friday.
BOY FIRED FATAL SHOT
Emma Valenta Killed While on Her Way Home from School - Detailed Story of the Tragedy.
Accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of fourteen year old Wenzel Siels resulted in the death of little Emma the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georg Valenta of Stangelville Friday night. The tragedy was due to careless handling of the weapon, the trigger of which had been raised by the lad unconsciously while maneuvering to get a shot at a rabbit. Children coming home from school among whom was the Valenta child, stopped by the roadside where the boy had chased his quarry and watched the operations of the lad in endeavoring to locate the game. The little girl accosted the lad and latter probably with no malicious intent rassed(sic) the gun and the next instant there was a report and the girl sank to the ground dead.
The boy unable at first to grasp the full meaning of his deed bent over the form of his dead companion and endeavored to stop the flow of blood from the girl's breast where the entire charge of shot at eight paces had entered. The remaining children fled pell mell from the scene and left the two alone. Incoherent and excited stories told by the little ones soon brought the parents and their neighbors to the road side and the little form cold in death was taken to the home by her grief stricken parents. All efforts at resuscitation were fruitless and the indications were that the child died instantly.
An inquest was held on Friday evening the coroner being summoned from Kewaunee and a verdict to the effect that the child had met death in an accidental manner, was rendered. The boy is at home with his parents and is overcome with greif(sic) and remorse. Close inquiry into the matter will be made but it is probable that the tragedy was due to accident. Stangellsville is a little burg in Kewaunee county just over the line and the scene of the shooting is three miles east of the village of Tisch Mills. The families are well known to Manitowoc county residents.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, November 7, 1904.
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