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Detroit Free Press
Thursday, 28 July 1859

         Fatal Accident by Shooting
         Correspondence of The Detroit Free Press
         
                               Holly Mills, July 27
                               
         Our village was very much excited this morning by the
       sudden death of a young man by the name of HENRY GOODRICH,
       who was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a
       gun from the hands of a young man by the name of CLARK,
       both of this place. A Coroner's inquest was called, and a
       post-mortem examination held over the body of the deceased,
       when a verdict was found that the deceased came to his
       death by a shot from a gun, the ball entering the head
       about two inches back of the right ear, and one half inch
       above the cavity of the same, passing diagonally through
       the upper portion of the brain, and lodging in the left
       parietal bone, about one inch in front of and one inch
       above the cavity of the left ear; the occipital and pari-
       etal bones were very much fractured. It appears that the
       two young men were out hunting, when they found a squirrel
       up a tree. They both shot at the animal, but did not hit
       him. They commenced loading again, GOODRICH standing a
       little back of CLARK'S right hand, and while CLARK was
       putting a cap on his gun, GOODRICH passed back to CLARK'S
       left hand, when CLARK'S thumb slipped off the lock of
       his gun just in time to discharge its ball in GOODRICH'S
       head, killing him instantly.
       
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