HULL, Cooper, Beeville Bee or Picayune, Friday, 22 Nov 1912, Front Page:

Cooper Hull Met Accidental Death. Fifteen Year Old Son of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. HULL Met Tragic 
Death Sunday Afternoon.  In getting through a fence, gun in own hand discharged, death 
followed about an hour later.

Cooper Hull was accidentally killed last Sunday afternoon. The young boy, in company with 
Carl Rees, was hunting when the accident causing the death occurred. They had just left 
G. C. Little's slaughter pen about two miles east of the city and were crawling through a barbed 
wire fence when Young Hull's gun was accidentally discharged. The entire load of the 20-gauge 
entered the unfortunate boy's left side tearing away a portion of the bladder and shattering the 
intestines. The father of the wounded boy was notified by telephone. In company with a physician 
he reached the scene fifteen minutes later. They brought the boy to Beeville where in Dr. Prather's 
office at 7 o'clock he passed away, hardly an hour after the accident.

Young Carl Rees, with tears trickling down his cheeks, gave the following account of the tragedy 
to the Bee Man. "We had spent some time at the slaughter pens watching the men butcher a hog.  
Growing restless we enquired of the men if we could   ride to town with them when they started. 
On being told that we could but that it would be an hour before they were ready to go, Cooper 
and I picked up our guns and started on the homeward journey. We had not gone out of sight of 
the men working in the slaughter pens when we came to two fences at the corner of a pasture. 
The wires were barbed and I got over at the corner where there were two braces. Cooper started 
over after me but lost his balance and fell back. Picking himself up, he went a few feet up the fence 
and started through the wires. I heard a shot and turning saw him throw up his hands. I ran to him 
and caught him before he fell to the ground. I laid him down and he asked me to examine the wound. 
I did so and then went to tell Mr. Little. He got a horse, went to the nearest telephone and about
 fifteen minutes, Dr. Hull, Cooper's father and Dr. Prather were on the scene."

The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the grave site in the New Cemetery, friends stood in 
mourning.