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Subject: Walter Cultice Fatally Injured Greeneville Newspaper 1922
Date: 19 Mar 2006 13:44:53 -0700

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These articles were found in the Cultice file at the Darke County Garst Museum, genealogy department. I am unaware of the dates, just the years are marked on them. There are three different articles here , and one listed previously on this forum.

WALTER CULTICE BADLY INJURED
Full charge of buckshot entered his abdomin when gun accidently discharged- has chance for recovery according to hospital authorities.
Walter Cultice, a young married man who lives in Palestine, was severly injured about eleven o;clock this morning when his shot gun accidently discharged. the ful charge of buckshot entered his abdomin.
Cultice and a companion were hunting near his home when the accident occured. Acording to the companion, Culitce was trying to find a rabbit he had crippled and he had placed his gun against a stump, while looking in the brush. Upon his retuen to the stump, he tripped and fell, knocking the shotgun against the ground and causing it to be accidentally fired. The full charge entered his abdomin and little hope was given for his recovery by a pysican who was called. Cultice was removed to the City Hospital where late reports gives out the informationm that although badly injured, none of the shot reached the intestine and unless complications set in he will live.
Mr Cultice is well known in Greeneville having just lived on a farm just west of the city a few years ago.


WOUNDS FATAL TO HUNTSMAN IN GREENEVEILLE
Walter Cultice lives several days after shooting

Greeneville, Nov 20, 1922
Walter Cultice, 35, Liberty Township farmer who accidentally shot himself while out hunting Thursday morning, died in the City Hospital Saturday.
The accident happened on the farm of Charles Harris, one and one half miles west of Palestine. The victim was taken to the City Hospital where an operation was performed in hopes of saving his life, but peritonitis developed and death resulted.
Mr Cultice was a highly respected man of Darke County. He is survived by his widow and four children.
Funeral services were held at the Cultice home today, Rev C W Hoeffer officiating. Intement was made in Greeneville Cemetery.


FARMER FATALLY SHOT IN BOWELS WHILE HUNTING

Walter Cultice, Liberty Township Farmer, Accidentally shot in abdomin while out hunting Thursday morning, ill luck has persued victim.

Walter Cultice a Liberty Township farmer, 36 years old, and married, was probably fatally shot this morning while out huntingabout 10 o'clock Thursday morning, is now hovering between life and death in the City Hospital.
Mr Cultice, who lives west of Palestine, was out hunting on the Chas Harris farm, a mile and a half west of Palestine. He was standing on a stump and the gun accidently discharged, the load pentrating his abdomin.
Immediately after the accident, De Huested and Dr Rush were summoned, also the Stocker and Son ambulance, who conveyed the injured man to the Greeneville Hospital, where an operation was performed in hopes of saving his life. At last reports he has not regained consciousness and the chance of recovery are extremely grave.
Mr Cultice is a victim of ill-luck. He has recently been a sufferer with rheumatism, later he had his tonsils removed, and about two weeks ago he left the hospital after undergoing an operation for appendicitis.

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