BACK IN TIME – 1926: Hunter killed in Prineville by another hunter

100 years ago November 18, 1926 While hunting ducks on the old Laban Harris place on Crooked River, 11 miles east of Post, John E. Robertson, 56, resident of The Dalles since 1902, was instantly killed shortly after noon Tuesday, when a fellow hunter, Wilbur Wasson, 17, also of The Dalles, discharged his gun in an attempt to shoot flying ducks, according to Glenn Hendrickson, game warden for this district, who, with P.B. Poindexter, coroner of Crook County, rushed to the scene. Hendrickson and Poindexter arrived at the Harris place at about 3:30 that afternoon. The accident happened while the party, three men, J.E. Robertson, Wilbur Wasson and the latter’s father, A.W. Wasson, were hunting for ducks. They were crawling up on a bunch of ducks on Crooked River on the Harris place, and as the ducks arose, the three hunters, close together, also arose, each attempting to shoot, when Mr.

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