Friday, March 1, 2024

Florence, WI Obituary Lesson: WRONG TARGET: Accident [1900]

To day if ye will hear his voice,harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
Q: For what is your life?
A: It is even a vapor,
that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14


"Carr, Garfield
Slayer Of Carr - Young Man of Commonwealth Confesses to the
Killing in the Woods

Florence, Wisconsin., Dec 26--a young man living in the village of Commonwealth has confessed that he was the hunter who killed Garfield Carr November 2
---He had started a deer and, in the chase, heard a crashing in the bushes and fired in that direction. Follow up the line of his shot he found that he had killed Garfield Carr
The father of young Carr is so impressed with the remorse of his sons slayer that he will not prosecute nor make public the name of the young man. [Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Dec. 27, 1900]."