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Submitted: 6/5/23 • Approved: 7/11/23 • Last Updated: 7/14/23 • R1487360-G0-S3
Unknown - November 13, 1888
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Friday, November 16, 1888
ARNEY, George — (Bentonville Journal) Quite a serious accident happened at the residence of Bedford Woods, last Tuesday evening about five o'clock. Frank Woods went out to milk the cows, and George Arney, a boy about fourteen years old who was working there, and Newt Woods had been out hunting and they all met in the milking yard, when Frank handed the bucket to Newt to milk and he took the gun and unbriched(sic) it (it being a britch(sic) loader and when he attempted to replace the britch the plunder being so worn as to strike the cartridge, the gun went off and shot George Arney in the leg when he was standing at a distance of only three or four feet from the muzzle of the gun. It tore the flesh so badly that it severed the main artery and the persons were badly frightened and could not stop the blood until the boy bled to death. The coroner held an inquest over the remains and the evidence brought out the above facts. Little George was buried yesterday afternoon in the Bentonville graveyard. We sympathize with the parents in their sad bereavement and we are sorry indeed for Frank Woods, in whose hands the gun was fired.
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