4-Year-Old Loses Eye When 14-Year-Old Brother Shoots Him with Supposedly Unloaded Gun, Jan. 10, 1923

Lumberton, Jan. 10—Arwood Wilkins, 4-year-old son of J.W. Wilkins, who lives near here, is minus his right eye as a result of being shot with an “unloaded” gun by his 14-year-old brother, Hughey Wilkins.

Besides the shot that entered the boy’s eye, seven struck him in the right shoulder, two in the neck and two in the chin. The right eyeball had to be remove as a result of the shooting.

From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 15, 1923.