John Cushman of Johnstown, aged 11 years, was shot and fatally injured last Sunday by a foreigner named Martin Pukola. Pukola boarded with the Cushman family. Saturday night he bought a revolver. While he was examining it the next day, the Cushman lad approached and stood watching him. In some manner the gun was discharged, the bullet tearing a large hole through the boy’s forehead. He died two hours later. Pukola was arrested. Death May Cause Damage Suit The death early Tuesday morning of Jacob Watterson, proprietor of the Watterson Hotel in South Fork, which occurred at the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, a few hours after he had been sent from the police station where he had been held as a “drunk,” promises to involve the Republican city administration in a lot of severe criticism and heavy suit for damages against the city. It appears now that Watterson was a very sick man during the time he was locked up in the police station, which was from Saturday afternoon until Monday evening during which time Dr. Miller treated him. It was proposed to send him to the hospital but when Watterson said he would not pay $15 a week, the authorities at the police station subsided. About 5 o’clock Monday evening Watterson was seized with convulsions and in alarm Dr. Matthew was called. He at once ordered the man taken to the Memorial Hospital where he was placed in the padded cell, because there was no other room in that institution at the time. Watterson died Monday, just a few short hours after being admitted to the hospital. Relatives from South Fork came to Johnstown Tuesday morning and took the body home. Mrs. Watterson was in Altoona at the time, attending a funeral and she did not hear of her husband’s death until nearly the noon hour. She is almost distracted over her husband’s death and his treatment. She is left with seven children to care for. A 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ginter of Spangler died of typhoid fever recently. The funeral took place at the Catholic cemetery. _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008