#shotgun blast

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oh so i try to be a nice person and the guy tries to steal my rare silver dapple pinto missouri fox trotter. you know what we do to horse thieves in texas?

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“Fliers are shot at near Kingsville,” The Essex County Reporter. November 26, 1942. Page 1. ---- While two occupants of the Windsor Elementary Flying Training School planes that was fired at while flying in the vicinity of Kingsville Saturday are recovering in hospital from shotgun wounds, others are conducting an extensive investigation for the person now believed to have shot-up the low flying R.C.A.F. training machine.

Although officials of the school still refuse to release any details regarding the incident, it was learned that two men, and not one, were in the plane. They are reported to be Sergeant Albert Beaudoin and Sergeant Lyall James, now in Grace Hospital.

Neither airman is believed to have been badly wounded by the shotgun pellets. One is said to have received 15 shots in the face, below and other parts of the body.

According to police, the size of the shot was identified as number six. As this light shot has short range, the plane must have been flying very low when the shot was fired.

It is difficult to understand any hunter failing to see or hear the low flying training ship.

The pilot is reported to have been heading towards Leamington to set his course for a return trip to the Windsor school. He is said to have banked his plane near the lake shore line, somewhere between the Gosfield Town Line and Leamington, and was heading for the town when something tore through the fuselage.

Upon discovering they were being fired upon, the pilot got out of range. Discovering both were wounded, they are reported to have returned immediately to the school.

Provincial police were notified and two other planes from the school went to search the district. Police reported residents of the district had heard the shot but could not state who fired it.

Police observed that the shot may have been fired by some person patrolling the lake shore in search of wounded geese.

Officers of the R.C.M.P. are working with provincial police on the case.

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“Woman Suffers Wound As Shotgun Explodes,” Toronto Globe. November 8, 1932. Page 2. ---- (Staff Correspondence of The Globe.) London, Ont., Nov. 7 - Shot through the right thigh tonight when her son’s 12-gauge shotgun accidentally exploded as he was cleaning it in the kitchen of their home, Mrs. George Tiner, aged 47, of Dorchester, was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital here. Hospital officials said late tonight her condition was only fair. Mrs. Tiner, who received the full blast of the gun from short range, was reported to have been terribly wounded.

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“Youthful Killer Is To Pay Penalty,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 20, 1932. Page 14.  ---- Shot Neighbor Who Visited His Room When He Was Sick ---- YORKTON, Sask. — Found guilty of murdering Malcolm McDonald, at the home of his father in the Barvas district on the evening of December 18 last by a jury, after three hours’ deliberation, Mike Spahn was sentenced by Mr. Justice H. Y. MacDonald, of Regina to be hanged on May 10. 

McDonald met his death while visiting the room of Spohn, who was in bed recovering from an illness. There had been bad feeling between the two neighboring families in the past but the young men were apparently friendly.

During the proceedings, the accused, a sickly youth of about twenty years, attired in a dark shirt gray, sweater, and dark tweed trousers, was a pitiful sight as he nervously twisted and squirmed in the prisoner’s box, the sallow features at hit face expressionless.

Constable W. Hutchinson and Detective-Sergeant N. J. Anderson both of the RCMP, told the court of arriving at the Spohn home on the evening of the shooting and of finding the accused in bed while Malcolm McDonald lay in a pool of blood on the floor. A single barrel shot gun, containing a used cartridge, in the breech, was lying on the floor near the deceased and on the ceiling and one of the walls of the room bullet marks were found.

Medical evidence revealed that the death bad been due to hemorrhage and bleeding and that the thumb on the left band of the deceased had been slightly injured, there being slight abrasion between the first and second knuckles and a small hole drilled out under the nai. This was believed to have been caused by stray pellets from the shot.

Expert evidence tendered at the trial by C. Howbolt, gunsmith of Saskatoon, and Staff Sergeant B. J. O. Strong, expert with firearms of the RCMP at Regina, was to the effect that the shot which had killed Malcolm McDonald had been fired at a distance of three feet. In the opinion of both these witnesses, the deceased could not have been holding the gun in the left hand in the manner as shown to police officers by Spohn, following the shooting, and inflict the wound that caused his death nor even inflict the minor injury on the thumb of his left hand. 

Only eleven witnesses took the stand to give evidence, these all being called by the crown and no evidence tendered by the defence.

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“Stabbing Affair at Point Pelee Marsh,” Leamington Post and News. November 27, 1930. Page 01. ---- Melee Starts at Sunday Christening Among Foreign Element ---- About 30 men, mostly belonging to the foreign element and some with badly patched hands and faces, appeared before Magistrate S. T. Anderson Monday afternoon to untangle an alleged stabbing and shooting melee that took place Sunday at a christening at the home of Peter Buroshi in Point Pelee new marsh. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence and the parties involved wee referred to the crown attorney if they wish to take further proceedings.

The matter got into the hands of local police Sunday evening when Chief Lamarsh and Constable White were summoned to the office of a local physician where they found Bill Kalibabo, a resident of the marsh, who was being treated for knife wounds. He had been stabbed on the head, in the jaw and under the eye. He told the officers that he had received the wounds at the Buroski home, where a christening party was in progress. He named Dennis Totomyer, also a resident of the marsh, as his assailant.

During the celebration, Kalibaba said, a fight started, and he was attacked by Totomayer. He rushed from the house to his brother’s car, which was parked outside with the object of going to a doctor. Totomyer, he said, followed him from the house, carrying a shotgun, and fired point black at the car as it drove away.

Chief Lambarsh and Constable White examined the car and found marks apparently made by shot. They then went to Totomyer’s home and arrested him, later finding the shotgun at a house on another farm. By this time Inspector Sidney Oliver, in charge of the Windsor district of provincial police, and Constable Bayes had appeared on the scene, and the Leamington police handed over the case to them.

Returning to Leamington, the police found that, in the meanwhile, another victim of the affray had arrived in town. He was Bill Craig, a resident of Leamington. He reported directly to the police station, suffering from a serious gash on the right hand and wrist.

He told the police that, while attending the party at the Buroski home, he had been attacked by several ‘Bolsheviks.’ He fled from his assailants into another room and locked the door but they broke in the door, and continued the beating, injuring him severely about the head.

He finally managed to make his escape, and made his way with difficulty to Leamington. He could not give the names of any of those who had set upon him.

Craig was taken by the police to the office of a physician who found it necessary to make six stitches in order to close the wound in his hand.

From what the police could learn, about 30 people were in attendance at the christening, and the fight developed into a general melee. Totomyer, the arrested man, showed marks of the conflict, in the shape of minor cuts and bruises, but so far as could be learned, no one else was seriously hurt.

The case was disposed of Monday afternoon by Magistrate Anderson as above stated.

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“Harrow Doctor Faces Charge,” Border Cities Start. November 13, 1930. Page 03. ---- Accused by Colored Man Of Wounding Attempt At Kingsville ---- Dr. R. H. Baker, coroner at Harrow, appeared in Sandwich police court this morning on a charge of assaulting and attempting to wound Harry Smith, 30, colored of Kingsville, with a shotgun. He was remanded to Wednesday without being asked to plead. The alleged assault occurred on Dr. Baker’s rented farm, adjacent to Jack Miner’s bird sanctuary at Kingsville, on November 4.

Mr. Smith, it is claimed, entered the doctor’s property with a shotgun, wounded one of the Miner geese, and then attempted to catch it. In order to scare the colored man away, Dr. Baker is said to have discharged a shotgun into the air several times.

The colored man was not wounded, but maintains that the weapon was discharged at him. The charge was laid by Provincial Constable A. J. Oliver, of Leamington, on Mr. Smith’s complaint.

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“Murder Attempt Laid to Man,” Border Cities Star. April 30, 1930. Page 05. ---- Sandwich West Colored Resident in Police Court ---- Soloman Parks, 29, colored, of 204 Victoria Road, Sandwich West, was charged today with attempted murder as a result of an alleged attempt by him to shoot Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis, 30, also colored, last night.

Parks appeared before Magistrate W. A. Smith in Sandwich police court this morning, and was remanded in custody until Friday. He was not asked to plead.

According to the information, Parks is alleged to have discharged a shotgun at the woman, who also resides at the Victoria Road address. She was not wounded, however.

Provincial police, who investigated the occurrence, were told that Parks fired at Mrs. Chavis as she was passing along Victoria Road in Sandwich West.

Following his arrest by Provincial Constable Frank Scott, Parks is said to have denied the shooting. If he had fired the shot, he is alleged to have stated, he would not have missed, as he ‘shoots good.’

The colored man is said to have been drinking heavily yesterday.

After his arrest, Parks was merely held for investigation, but this morning Mrs. Chavis appeared and laid the charge of attempted murder against him.

Details are lacking as to the motive Parks would have in attempting to kill her.