The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday April 2, 1961 Gun Acciden Claims Life of Schoolboy. A 14-year-old Topeka junior high school student was fatally wounded Saturday night when a .22 caliber rifle discharged at a friend's home. Harold COLLINS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis N. COLLINS, 211 W. 21st, died at Stormont-Vail Hospital two hours after he was shot at about 6:30 p.m. Collins, was with two other youths--all members of the ninth grade at Cane Junior High--at the home of Buck Atkisson, 1304 Polk, when the gun discharged. Mrs. Atkisson said the boys had just come home a few mintues before her son, John, came downstairs from the bedroom and said a gun he was holding accidently discharged. John, 15, told his mother that he was showing his rifle, used for hunting, to Collines, detectives reported. Collins was shot in the abdomen, police said. Don Hogan, 2609 Central Park, was with the two boys. Mrs. Atkisson said the three planned to spend the night at Collins' home. Friday night they stayed at the Atkisson home and the night before at Hogan's home.