----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 1/6/1910

MAURICE WATSON FATALLY SHOT
 

On Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1909, Maurice Watson of Red Wood Falls, formerly of this city (Greenwood, Clark County), received a gun shot wound, the effects of which caused his death on Tuesday of this week, Jan. 4, 1910.

The particulars of the case, so far as we have been able to learn, are that Maurice and a companion had been somewhere with a load of hay and were returning home with the empty wagon when a flock of prairie chickens flew by. The boys had a double-barrel shotgun with the, and Watson's companion fired at the chickens. The shot frightened the team, which young Watson was driving, and they gave a startled jump forward. This unexpected movement threw Watson's companion (we have been unable to learn his name) over the rack into the wheel, the gun striking on the rack and in some manner discharging the other barrel, the full contents of which took Marice square in the back, just under the left shoulder blade, penetrating the top of the left lung.

Medical assistance was called at once and it was thought the young man would recover, as his father, Ed Watson, of this city, received work on Monday that he was much better, and when word came Tuesday that his boy was dead, the shock was not only a severe one to the father and sister here, but to his many friends as well.

Maurice Watson was born in Red Wood Falls about twenty years ago and came to Greenwood with his parents about twelve years ago. He was a student of the High School here and was a gentlemanly and God fearing young man at all times, with a sunny and generous disposition of character that won him friends everywhere he was known. For the past three or four years he had spent a good share of his time in the west and at his native town. He spent the summer here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Watson, returning to Red Wood Falls in the late summer, where he met his untimely death.

The deceased leaves to mourn his loss, besides his parents, five sisters, Florence and Calla of this city and Nellie, Lillian and Mrs. Earl Converse of Bristol, S.D. (whom Mrs. Watson and daughter Calla went to visit only a couple of weeks ago), and one brother, Alvie, and a large host of friends in this city and in Red Wood Falls, his native town.

So far we have been unable to get the very much desired information as to whether the remains will be brought here for burial, or when the services were to be held, whether in Red Wood Falls or this city.