Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — A Close Shave. [ARTICLE]

A Close Shave.

Talking about close shaves and hairbreadth escapes, here is an instance of both from Bellbrook, Ohio. Young Elcook, talented, first family and all that, got on a genteel drunk. His father sent for the village Marshal to calm the obstreperous young man. Elcook drew a revolver and shot at the Marshal, The bullet passed through that official’s hat. It cut the hair from the top of his head, leaving the scalp bare, but not injuring the man. This was a close “shave” and a “ hair’’-breadth escape.