Accident to a Gamekeeper at Hooton Roberts

On Friday evening, William Clayton, one of Earl Fitzwilliam’s gamekeepers, living at Hooton Roberts, met with a serious accident.

He was going his usual rounds, with a double-barrelled gun over his shoulder, when by some means the pin holding the barrels to the stock got loose, and the latter fell on to the ground behind him. One of them exploded, and the contents were lodged in the calf of his leg.

He managed to crawl home, and the aid of Dr. Clarke, Wentworth, and Dr. Hill, of Conisbro’, was obtained, and the next day it was found necessary to amputate the limb below the knee.