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\nThe two-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Addington of Rochester, Mo., is dead at a hospital in St. Joseph from a bullet wound caused by the accidental discharge of a revolver held by the baby’s mother. While putting the child to bed Mrs. Addington was amusing it with a revolver she found under her husband’s pillow. She did not think the weapon was loaded and snapped the trigger. The mother is in a state of collapse.\n<\/p>\n
\nSource: The King City Democrat<\/em>, 24 September 1915, p. 6\n<\/p>\n \n \n \nThe St. Joseph papers tell of a sad accident at Rochester a few days since. They state that a Mrs. Wm. Addington was preparing her 2-year-old baby for bed and picked up a revolver and playfully pointed it at the baby and was snapping it to amuse the child, when it discharged and the ball entered the side and lodged in the left side. The mother was horror stricken. The child was at once taken to St. Joseph and operated on, but without much hope for its recovery. It died the next morning. It is the empty or supposedly empty revolver again that has brought such unspeakable grief to that home and ever to be remembered sorry to the mother heart. — King City Chronicle\n<\/p>\n \nSource: The Albany Capital<\/em>, 23 September 1915, p. 2\n<\/p>\n Date of death: 10 Sep 1915 [Much of article illegible]<\/p>\n Different Version of Death of Child<\/p>\n Letter From Rochester, Mo., Explains Accidental Killing of Little Boy<\/p>\n Chief of Police James A. Clouser received a letter explaining the accidental shooting of the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Addington, Rochester, Mo., the night of \u2026 The letter said Mrs. Addington \u2026 for the night \u2026 under \u2026 and was away \u2026 As \u2026 the gun \u2026 accidentally discharged. \u2026 was brought here to a hospital \u2026 died a few hours after ar\u2026\n<\/p>\n \u2026 differs from that published in the Gazette, the latter \u2026 Mrs. Addington was snapping the revolver to amuse the baby and that it was accidentally discharged. The writer of the letter to Chief Clouser was a neighbor of the Addison’s [sic].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The two-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Addington of Rochester, Mo., is dead at a hospital in St. Joseph from a bullet wound caused by the accidental discharge of a revolver held by the baby’s mother. While putting the child to bed Mrs. Addington was amusing it with a revolver she found under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-people-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/p>\nChild Killed by Mother<\/h3>\n
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\nSubject: Donald David Leroy Addington
\nSource: St. Joseph Gazette<\/em>, 20 Sep 1915, p. 5\n<\/p>\n