Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — LOSES LIFE WADING FOR DUCK. [ARTICLE]

LOSES LIFE WADING FOR DUCK.

Gunner's Body Recovered With Game Tightly Gripped. Scranton, Pa.—With a dead duck Clutched tight In hie right hand, Michael Shearn, of Simpson, was taken from the botton of the Belmont Reservoir, after his dog had kept the neighborhood awake most of the night whlnnlng. On the bank were Shearn’s clothes and a shotgun with one barrel empty. The duck In his hand had been shot, and, putting the circumstances together, It was concluded that Shearn had shot the duck, and when it dropped Into the water he determined to have it, so stripped and plunged In, but must have been overtaken by cramps and sunk.