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Detroit Free Press
Wednesday, 11 January 1860

         Singular Accident - A singular accident with a gun
       occurred in Tecumseh, on Friday evening, the 6th. The
       circumstances attending the accident, as related to
       us by Dr. Todd, are as follows: MR. ALFRED HALL had
       been out in the morning with a double-barrel shot-gun
       to shoot some pigeons, and returned his gun to its
       customary place over a door, with one barrel charged.
       The gun had been kept in the same place during the
       last five years, and was supposed to be perfectly se-
       cure. On Friday evening, however, by some means per-
       fectly inexplicable, the gun fell from its place at
       the moment when MR. HALL had passed out of the door,
       and discharged with the muzzle towards MR. HALL and
       within two feet of him, as he was going down the
       steps from the door. A number of the shot took effect
       in his side between the ribs and hip, several passing
       beneath the skin and out about two inches from the
       place of entrance. The wounds are not serious, but 
       it may be considered a very singular accident and a
       narrow escape.
        - Adrian Watchtower, Jan. 9.
        
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