Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — The Old Story. [ARTICLE]

The Old Story.

He thought it wasn’t loaded, again. This time the catastrophe occurred at La Crosse, Wia, where Louis May Frank Maher and three other youths went to the gun-room of the Light Guard armory to play carda May watched the other four, and, seeing some cheating going on, went to the locker, and. taking out a gun, said: “I’U shoot the next man that cheata ” He then held up a brass shell, and placed it in the gun. Soon he saw Frank Maher pass a card to his partner, and called out to him to look out Maher turned to May, placed his hand on bis heart, and said, “Fire away!” This May did, and the ball entered Maher’s left eye, ooming out near his left ear. He fell to the floor, but the boys thought it only a continuation of the joke until they saw blood streaming from the hole in the unfortunate youth’s head. May was nearlv crazed with grief, for he and the dead youth were close frienda He had taken the shell from a box containing the shells fired in target practice a few evenings ago, and supposed that it was not loaded May was not arrested.