Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Adlai Stevenson’s Grandson Accidentally Killed Girl. [ARTICLE]

Adlai Stevenson’s Grandson Accidentally Killed Girl.

Bloomington, 111., Dec. 30.—Adlai Stevenson, grandson of Former VicePresident Adlai E. Stevenson,\accidentally shot and killed Miss Ruth Merwin, 16 years old, in the Stevenson homestead here tonight. Some of the boys at at the home of young Stevenson’s father? were students at a military academy, and during the evening decided to give some of their drills. They found an old rifle, and, as they thought, took out all the cartridges. During the drill the weapon, while in thp hands of young Stevenson, was discharged, the bullet striking Miss Merwin in the forehead, causing instant death. Oysters 35 cents per quart; fresh fish all week at Hails’.