Last Updated on October 19, 2011 by
Sparta, Baker County, Oregon
Young Man Dead From Gunshot Wound
Andrew Neault, 22 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Neault, ranchers near Sparta, died at a hospital in Baker Monday as a result of a gun shot wound, sustained Sunday forenoon. Young Neault took an automatic pistol and started out to shoot a coyote. He fired three times when a cartridge stuck. In clearing the gun it was discharged and the bullet passed through his stomach. He was able to walk in the house, and was later taken to Baker, a distance of thirteen miles, where he lived for thirty-six hours.
North Powder News
Saturday, December 4, 1926