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Obituaries of Hamilton County Residents From Misc. Newspapers Transcribed and Donated by Joanne Murray William Cowles From: The St. Lawrence Herald (Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., NY) Friday, September 23, 1904 The second of the season's hunting fatalities occurred in the Adirondacks Tuesday morning of last week, when William Cowles, a widely known Hamilton County guide, was shot and killed instantly by his companion, James E. Higgins, while deer hunting at Lake Piseco. -------------------------------------- William Cowles From: Ticonderoga Sentinel (Ticonderoga, Essex Co., NY) August 1904 William Cowles, a well-known guide at Piseco, Hamilton County, was accidentally shot by James E. Higgins, a resident of that place, while trying to capture a deer they had in the lake Tuesday morning. They were each in a boat, and the deer was in the lake between them. Higgins shot at the deer and the ball, glancing off the water, hit Cowles, who was in the other boat, in the left side killing him instantly. Notify Administrator about this message?
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