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From: Betty <>
Subject: Sac Bee Nov 16 1904 - Dickerson, Lutman
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:16:38 -0800


Sacramento Evening Bee
Wednesday, November 16, 1904


DEER HUNTER SHOOTS MAN
Mistook Horse For His Prey, Threw Rifle to Shoulder, Fired and Hit Peaceful
Human Being
LEWISTON (Trinity Co.), November 16, 1904 - Arthur DICKERSON mistook a horse
for a deer yesterday morning when he was out hunting with W.A. HAMPTON. He
shot at the horse and missed it, but hit David C. LUTMAN, who was leading
the animal and nearly killed him.
Dickerson and Hampton were out hunting about two miles from town. Lutman
was hunting also. But while Dickerson and Hampton were hunting for deer,
Lutman was hunting for a horse. Lutman had found his quest and was leading
his sorrel mare through the brush down the mountain side about a hundred
yards ahead of Dickerson, when the latter spied the horse but not the man
leading it.
Dickerson mistook the sorrel for a deer, threw a rifle to his shoulder,
took quick aim and fired. The bullet struck Lutman instead of the horse. It
hit him a glancing blow, striking a button on his waist in front, and
plowing its way beneath the skin around the abdominal cavity and out at the
back. Fortunately it did not pierce the peritoneum. The wound was
superficial but painful.
Lutman shrieked with pain when he was hit, and Dickerson realized that an
awful blunder had been made.
The point where the shooting took pace was a mile from the nearest road.
Lutman had to walk this distance, Dickerson and Hampton supporting him, one
on each side. At the road a stop was made and a wagon procured to haul the
wounded man to town.
The physician says that Lutman's wound is not serious, if proper attention
be paid to it for several days. Lutman was taken to Weaverville this
morning, so that he can be under the direct care of the physician from day
to day.
The shooting of Lutman was an unfortunate blunder, and no one regrets it
more than does Arthur Dickerson, who made it.



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