FDR
GRANDSON KILLS PAL
Friend Shot
in Accident
PHILADELPHIA,
Penn.—The ten-year-old grandson of President Roosevelt, the son of Colonel
Elliot Roosevelt, was involved in an accidental shooting yesterday in which his
best friend was killed. William “Billy” Donner Roosevelt accidentally knocked
over a loaded .22 caliber rifle, which discharged. The bullet entered the chest
of eleven-year-old Lewis Hutchinson, piercing his heart before exiting the
other side of his chest. The young Hutchinson was the son of an investment
banker from Ardmore. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Bryn Mawr hospital at
6:25 Eastern War Time (EWT). The accident occurred at the home of Billy’s
mother on the 168-acre farm at Edgemont in suburban Delaware County. Billy’s
mother—Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Windsor—and Colonel Roosevelt were divorced in
1933 after one year of marriage.
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