ACCIDENT NEAR HIGHFIELD
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Joseph L. Asbridge, Jr. of Highfield, Accidentally shot in the back of head and dies instantly
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Last Saturday morning two little sons of Joseph L. Asbridge, who resides at Highfield post office, were playing together happily, as only two little brothers can, at the home of their father, when a shotgun was accidentally discharged which resulted in the death of the eldest, Joseph L Asbridge Jr., aged 12 years. Only meager reports of the sad affair has been received at this writing, but it would seem that the two children were playing in an out building generally used as a bunk house and in which a shotgun was resting upon a box with the muzzle pointed toward the door. The boys in their play started hurriedly for the door to leave the building, when, in some manner the gun discharged,
the full charge striking the eldest boy in the back of the head, tearing a portion of the skull away entirely, the little fellow falling in the doorway. A servant in the house heard the report of the gun and started at once for the bunk house where she found the little boy lying as he had fell with life extinct. It seems that Mr. Asbridge was away from home at the time the dreadful accident occurred but word was sent in by telephone and undertaker Geo. W. Creel left at the earliest possible moment with a casket to prepare the body for burial. The funeral was conducted from the Episcopalian church at Billings by Rev. Bowker yesterday and the body laid to rest in the Billings cemetery. The low is, indeed a heavy one for Mr. Asbridge, who some years ago was left a widower with four little children to rear, of whom Joseph, named for him, was the eldest. Mr. Asbridge is one of the prominent stock growers of the county, and has a large circle of friends in Lewistown whose sincere and heartfelt sympathy go out to his in this unusually sad hour of trial and affliction.
The Inland Empire October 12, 1905
Moore, Fergus County, Montana
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Joseph L. Asbridge, Jr. of Highfield, Accidentally shot in the back of head and dies instantly
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Last Saturday morning two little sons of Joseph L. Asbridge, who resides at Highfield post office, were playing together happily, as only two little brothers can, at the home of their father, when a shotgun was accidentally discharged which resulted in the death of the eldest, Joseph L Asbridge Jr., aged 12 years. Only meager reports of the sad affair has been received at this writing, but it would seem that the two children were playing in an out building generally used as a bunk house and in which a shotgun was resting upon a box with the muzzle pointed toward the door. The boys in their play started hurriedly for the door to leave the building, when, in some manner the gun discharged,
the full charge striking the eldest boy in the back of the head, tearing a portion of the skull away entirely, the little fellow falling in the doorway. A servant in the house heard the report of the gun and started at once for the bunk house where she found the little boy lying as he had fell with life extinct. It seems that Mr. Asbridge was away from home at the time the dreadful accident occurred but word was sent in by telephone and undertaker Geo. W. Creel left at the earliest possible moment with a casket to prepare the body for burial. The funeral was conducted from the Episcopalian church at Billings by Rev. Bowker yesterday and the body laid to rest in the Billings cemetery. The low is, indeed a heavy one for Mr. Asbridge, who some years ago was left a widower with four little children to rear, of whom Joseph, named for him, was the eldest. Mr. Asbridge is one of the prominent stock growers of the county, and has a large circle of friends in Lewistown whose sincere and heartfelt sympathy go out to his in this unusually sad hour of trial and affliction.
The Inland Empire October 12, 1905
Moore, Fergus County, Montana
ACCIDENT NEAR HIGHFIELD
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Joseph L. Asbridge, Jr. of Highfield, Accidentally shot in the back of head and dies instantly
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Last Saturday morning two little sons of Joseph L. Asbridge, who resides at Highfield post office, were playing together happily, as only two little brothers can, at the home of their father, when a shotgun was accidentally discharged which resulted in the death of the eldest, Joseph L Asbridge Jr., aged 12 years. Only meager reports of the sad affair has been received at this writing, but it would seem that the two children were playing in an out building generally used as a bunk house and in which a shotgun was resting upon a box with the muzzle pointed toward the door. The boys in their play started hurriedly for the door to leave the building, when, in some manner the gun discharged,
the full charge striking the eldest boy in the back of the head, tearing a portion of the skull away entirely, the little fellow falling in the doorway. A servant in the house heard the report of the gun and started at once for the bunk house where she found the little boy lying as he had fell with life extinct. It seems that Mr. Asbridge was away from home at the time the dreadful accident occurred but word was sent in by telephone and undertaker Geo. W. Creel left at the earliest possible moment with a casket to prepare the body for burial. The funeral was conducted from the Episcopalian church at Billings by Rev. Bowker yesterday and the body laid to rest in the Billings cemetery. The low is, indeed a heavy one for Mr. Asbridge, who some years ago was left a widower with four little children to rear, of whom Joseph, named for him, was the eldest. Mr. Asbridge is one of the prominent stock growers of the county, and has a large circle of friends in Lewistown whose sincere and heartfelt sympathy go out to his in this unusually sad hour of trial and affliction.
The Inland Empire October 12, 1905
Moore, Fergus County, Montana
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Joseph L. Asbridge, Jr. of Highfield, Accidentally shot in the back of head and dies instantly
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Last Saturday morning two little sons of Joseph L. Asbridge, who resides at Highfield post office, were playing together happily, as only two little brothers can, at the home of their father, when a shotgun was accidentally discharged which resulted in the death of the eldest, Joseph L Asbridge Jr., aged 12 years. Only meager reports of the sad affair has been received at this writing, but it would seem that the two children were playing in an out building generally used as a bunk house and in which a shotgun was resting upon a box with the muzzle pointed toward the door. The boys in their play started hurriedly for the door to leave the building, when, in some manner the gun discharged,
the full charge striking the eldest boy in the back of the head, tearing a portion of the skull away entirely, the little fellow falling in the doorway. A servant in the house heard the report of the gun and started at once for the bunk house where she found the little boy lying as he had fell with life extinct. It seems that Mr. Asbridge was away from home at the time the dreadful accident occurred but word was sent in by telephone and undertaker Geo. W. Creel left at the earliest possible moment with a casket to prepare the body for burial. The funeral was conducted from the Episcopalian church at Billings by Rev. Bowker yesterday and the body laid to rest in the Billings cemetery. The low is, indeed a heavy one for Mr. Asbridge, who some years ago was left a widower with four little children to rear, of whom Joseph, named for him, was the eldest. Mr. Asbridge is one of the prominent stock growers of the county, and has a large circle of friends in Lewistown whose sincere and heartfelt sympathy go out to his in this unusually sad hour of trial and affliction.
The Inland Empire October 12, 1905
Moore, Fergus County, Montana
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