On This Date in Minnesota History: December 14

December 14, 1921 – Charles Grover Sutton of Tenstrike passed away at 12:30 this afternoon while being brought to Bemidji by automobile for hospital attention following an accident in which he shot himself with a .22 caliber rifle. The bullet passed into the abdomen on the upper right side. The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m.

Sutton had made his home for the past two months a short distance from Tenstrike, and when he left the house, he had planned to cut a quantity of wood before returning for dinner. He first went to look at a number of traps that he had set about the woods, and then went to the wood lot. As he was hanging the rifle up on a branch of a tree, the loaded weapon was discharged.

He then picked up his axe and rifle and went to the house, telling his wife of the accident. She immediately made arrangements to bring him to the Bemidji hospital, but the injured man passed away a short distance from Turtle River, loss of blood being considered the cause.

The deceased was 28 years old and had been employed as a railroad brakeman. He leaves a wife and a six-year-old son.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Accidental Shooting Takes Tenstrike Man. Rifle Discharged While being Hung in Tree; Victim Dies on Way to Hospital”; Dec. 15, 1921; p. 1.

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