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Detroit Free Press
Thursday, June 24, 1886

         A CHANCE SHOT
         
         Could Not Survive the Shock of a
           Shattered Thigh
           
         East Saginaw, June 23, - WILLAIM WALKER died at
       Gladwin yesterday afternoon from paralysis of the
       heart caused by chloroform administered for the
       purpose of amputating his leg.
         Sunday night, at 10 o'clock, WALKER and a compan-
       ion were discovered in a chicken coop on the Merrill
       farm, midway between Coleman and Gladwin. Mr. JOYCE,
       foreman on the farm, and his son-in-law, had the man
       covered and ordered him to surrender, which he did.
       JOYCE'S son-in-law was standing near with a gun in
       his hand loaded and cocked. It was suddenly dis-
       charged and the charge passed through WALKER'S left
       thigh, shattering the bone into dozens of pieces.
       He was removed to to the poor farm where he died
       immediately after amputation. He had a mother and
       sister in New York and a sister at Sault Ste. Marie.
       He was a stranger in Gladwin.

                
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