From The Washington Herald
Washington, D.C.
25 March, 1909

BOY SHOOTS HIS PLAYMATE
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Lad Is Accidentally Shot in Back.
and May Not Live.
   
   Amsterdam, N. Y., March 24. -- Roy, the eighteen-year-old son of former Supervisor Mason Gillland, was shot through the stomach last night by William, the thirteen-year-old son of Zachariah Jacoby, the bullet lodging in the muscles of the back. Owing to its location, it cannot be disturbed by the surgeons.
   The Gilliland boy was at the Jacoby home. Jacoby took his father’s .32-caliber revolver from a drawer, and soon there was an explosion. The lad is still alive to-night, but the chances are against his recovery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010