Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1913 — Mayor-Elect Bell Shot While Hunting Thursday. [ARTICLE]

Mayor-Elect Bell Shot While Hunting Thursday.

Joseph E. Bell, of Indianapolis, was accidentally shot while hunting at French Lick last Thursday. In company with Tom Taggart and several Indianapolis politicians and saloonkeepers he is taking a rest after the hard work of the campaign. Thursday they went hunting and when a rabbit jumped out .of a clump of grass every hunter fired. Some one did not aim very accurately and the charge of shot grazed Bell’s side and tore his clothing. The injury, however, was not serious. Peculiarly, it was just four years to the day since Tom Taggart, who was hunting in the south, was shot in the side of the face. A clever joke was played on Taggart and Bell Wednesday. They joined a party to go possum hunting and located two possums themselves. They climbed the trees And shook the possums down for the dogs to kill. At the possum dinner served in the Tom Taggart 'hotel Thursday noon, they learned for the first time that the possums had been caught previously and placed in the trees so that Taggart and Bell would find them. Billy Blodgett is at French Lick and promises an interesting story of the capers of these politicians each day.