Obit: Redmond, Harold #3 (?– 1911)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Redmond, Kraus

----Source: The Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., WI.) July 28, 1911

Redmond, Harold (?– 23 July 1911)

Harold Redmond was instantly killed Sunday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Redmond in the Town of York.  The boy came to his death while handling a revolver, but the exact manner is not known, as there were no witnesses to the accident. The boy had done his chores as usual in the morning and at 9 o’clock had disappeared. About 11 o’clock George Kraus came to tell the hired man, Richard Kraus that his sister was home from Chicago and wished to see him.  In looking for Kraus, Mr. and Mrs. Redmond discovered that Harold was also missing and they instituted a careful search for him.  Upon entering the machine shed, Mrs. Redmond found the little fellow lying on his back, cold in death, with a bullet hole through his head. The bullet had entered back of the right ear and passed through the head and out at the left cheek bone. A coroner’s jury decided that Harold was killed by a revolver shot fired by an unknown person. The general opinion seems that while there were suspicious circumstances connected with the accident, that Harold, in the boy-like handling of forbidden treasure, had accidentally discharged the weapon and killed himself. - Neillsville Times.