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Port Huron Times-Herald
January 4, 1911


                        BOY INSTANTLY KILLED 
                        BY HIS OLDER BROTHER
                        
                     GUSS UMLOFF, OF MARINE CITY,
                         USES GUN HE DIDN'T
                         "KNOW WAS LOADED"
                         
                       BOYS WERE PLAYING IN A 
                       SHANTY AT THE REAR OF
                         HOME AT THE TIME
                         
               Marine City, Mich., Jan. 4 - While playing 
             with a shot gun which they did not think was
             loaded, GUS UMLOFF, the twelve year old son
             of GUSTAVE UMLOFF was shot in the forehead
             and instantly killed this afternoon by his
             older brother.
               The UMLOFF boys and several other lads of
             the neighborhood have a shanty in the rear
             of FRANK KREASEL'S home and have been in the 
             habit of gathering there for play each day.
             The gun, according to the story, received
             this afternoon, was standing on the outside
             of the shanty door and the older UMLOFF boy
             picked it up to examine it. He did not think
             it was loaded and pointing it at the shanty
             pulled the trigger.
               The charge passed through the side of the
             shanty and struck young UMLOFF, who was stand-
             ing inside, in the forehead. The lad was in-
             stantly killed. The other boys gave the alarm
             and a physician was summoned but young UMLOFF
             was beyond all medical help. Sheriff WAGENSEIL,
             Coroner ALBERT A. FALK and Proscuting Attorney
             THOMAS A. GEORGE were notified and went to 
             Marine City this afternoon to investigate the
             affair.
               The older UMLOFF boy is frantic with grief
             over the death of his brother. According to
             the statements received this afternoon the
             shooting was accidental.
                    
                  
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