Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — PREACHER SHOOTS A GIRL. [ARTICLE]

PREACHER SHOOTS A GIRL.

Sleeping Child Suffers in a Fight with Indiana Ruffians. Rev. John Wolstein, who has been holding revival services at Concord Christian

Church, near Washington, Ind., received word the other night that he would be .egged if he preached again. He went prepared, and when he opened services laid a pistol on each side of his Bible, announcing that he would defend himself if necessary. It was not long before a disturbance was raised at one of the windows. In an instant the minister commenced firing toward the window. He scattered the roughs, but one bullet passed through the abdomen of the 3-year-old daughter of John Standiford, who was sleeping on one of the seats. The little girl is dead. Standiford refuses to jjrosecute Walstein.