Scout Shoots Sheriff

Article taken from The Newport Daily News, February 14, 1958

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Portsmouth, Ohio (AP) -- Doctors have termed Scioto County (Ohio) Sheriff Burl E. Justice's condition "critical."

Justice was accidentally shot just below the heart yesterday by a Boy Scout.  The boy was examining the sheriff's .32 caliber revolver, which he thought was unloaded.

He was one of three Scouts visiting the county jail here.

He was identified as Hershel Travis, 12.