BOY KILLED BY ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF REVOLVER IN HANDS OF YOUNG PLAYMATE
DANA JONES, SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LAD, SHOT THROUGH STOMACH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON BY GEORGIE BISSELL — INJURY RESULTED IN DEATH.
Dana, the seven-year-old son of J. A. Jones, a Great Northern train dispatcher was fatally injured when he was shot through the stomach and liver by Georgie Bissell, son of Geo. Bissell. The accident happened Wednesday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock on Roach avenue back of the Eldon White residence, where the boys had gone swimming. The gun was owned by thirteen-year-old Chester Jackway, who had handed it to the Bissell lad a moment before.
The little injured lad at first hardly realized that he had been hurt and he stood for several minutes after the bullet had struck him. His companions soon realized that the little fellow was horribly injured, however, and he was picked up and carried to the Bissell home by the Bissell and Jakway lads. Mrs. Bissell assisted in carrying Dana to the Lytle hospital nearby. Two surgeons were called and an operation was performed at once. They found that the bullet had passed thru {sp} the pyloric opening of the stomach and thru the liver, lodging in the back, but no attempt was made to recover the bullet. A great deal of blood was found in the abdominal cavity. The boy died at nine o'clock last night.
Ward County Independent, 6/19/1913
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14 TEACHERS NEARLY DROWN
LAUNCH CARRYING PICKNICKERS HITS PIPE IN THE MOUSE RIVER
Minot, N.D., Sept. 17.—Fourteen school teachers had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon in the Mouse river when the launch of George Bissel struck an iron pipe under water and started to leak.
The propeller of the boat was knocked off and other damage was done. Bissel believes the pipe was laid under the water for the purpose of wrecking the boat.
The young women were not panic-stricken yesterday following the collision. The boat drifted toward the short and all climbed out.
The teachers were on their way to Wildwood, where they were going to hold a picnic. Following the accident they changed their plans and went to the home of Mrs. John Campbell, 313 Jarvis street, where they had lunch and spent the afternoon.
Williston Graphic, 9/18/1913
Editor: Bissel later sued Olaf Olson for blocking the river; the state denied his claim based on the fact the Mouse river had not been deemed navigable.
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J.W. GEORGE JURY DISAGREES
MRS. GEO. BISSEL CHARGED MINOT MAN WITH ASSAULT — WHEN SHE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE ENGINE AWAY FROM WILDWOOD.
The case of the State vs. J. W. (Wally) George, for assault, was terminated Wednesday when the jury, after deliberating twenty hours, failed to agree. Judge Murray of the county court dismissed the jurors and the case will again come to trial.
The complaining witness was Mrs. George Bissel, who attempted to take an engine from Wildwood park one Sunday last summer, which is owned by her son, but which her husband had installed to run the player piano. Mr. George appeared while Mrs. Bissell was in the act of lugging the engine away and stopped her, ordering her from the park. Mrs. Bissel swore that George struck her and knocked her down, resulting in bodily harm. The defendant had witnesses to prove that he had merely taken her by the arm and lead her from the park. George declares that he only did this after she threatened to split his head open with a hatchet.
Ward County Independent, 1/15/1914
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AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
Theobald Horning of Mannhaven brought his little five-year-old daughter to the city Tuesday to consult Dr. McLachlan. She and her sister were struggling for possession of a fork and one of the tines entered the little girl's eye. The child will lose the sight of the eye and it will be necessary to remove the injured one in order to save the sound one. Dr. E. F. Jones accompanied them from Mannhaven.
Bismarck Tribune, 10/30/1908
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JEALOUS MAN KILLS WOMAN
SHOT MOTHER-IN-LAW, SWEETHEART AND THEN HIMSELF—MOTHER-IN-LAW MAY LIVE
Aberdeen,S. D., Sept. 18—What appears to be a double murder at least and suicide took place here shortly before noon.
William Vogt, liveryman, at Bismarck, N.D., is believed to have shot and killed his sweetheart, Mrs. Louise Cushing, fatally wounding his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mae Porter, and then killed himself.
From what could be learned at the time of the shooting, it is understood that Mrs. Cushing left Bismarck with Roy W. Fullerton of Bismarck, coming to Aberdeen to live with her mother.
Vogt arrived here this morning, and it is said to have thrown Fullerton out of the house and then shot Mrs. Cushing, her mother-in-law and himself.
It is believed that Vogt had been keeping company with Mrs. Cushing at Bismarck. She left there several days ago to come to Aberdeen to visit.
She was divorced from Frank Cushing, sergeant in the army at Fort Lincoln, in 1913, the decree giving her the custody of three children, who are in St. Joseph's orphanage at Fargo, N.D.
Mrs. Porter will recover, the bullet passing through her jaw, missing the jugular vein by an eighth of an inch and coming out of the right side of the neck.
Williston Graphic, 9/23/1915
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Badly Burned.
Margaret, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James I. Coffin, of Grand Forks, was the victim of a fearful accident. She was playing about the yard, and crossed over into a neighbors yard in which a bonfire was burning, and is supposed to have deliberately walked into the flames. Without a doubt she would have been fatally burned at once had it not been for David Warren, who resides next door, who noticed the little one and rushing to her extinguished the flames in the child's clothing with his coat in which he rolled her.
Hope Pioneer, 9/24/1903
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