Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1916 — Indiana Boy Killed on Border By Accidental Shot. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Boy Killed on Border By Accidental Shot.

An accidental shot from the revolver of' Private Burl Nicholson, Co. D, First Indiaha regiment, of Indianapolis, killed Private Robert E. Sullivan, 24 years of age, of Co. E, of Fort Wayne, Sunday morning. Nicholson was in E Company tent showing the revolver he had just received from Indianapolis. Sullivan ‘was sitting on a cot in his own tent. Nichqlson thought the revolver was unloaded, snapped the trigger and a bullet went through twd tent walls and struck the victim in the right breast, lie died in three hours. Nicholson is under arrest.