At 4 o’clock this afternoon Corner Walker is holding an inquest over the body of Clayton McDonald, a young white boy who died as a result of a wound caused by a load of shot from a gun with his father accidentally fired. The youth and the elder McDonald went hunting in the morning and returned about 2 o’clock. Went into a meat market in the Olympia village. He put the gun, loaded, in a corner of the store room and Mr. McDonald picked it up and toyed with the trigger. The guy was accidentally discharged and the youth fell, wounded in the abdomen. It was seen from the first that the wound would prove fatal, the medical attention was immediately given to him.

The inquest was held at the store of Magistrate S. I. Riley in the Olympian mill village. McDonald and son were employed in the meat market and cotton mill as operatives.