Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — KILLED PLAYING ROBBER [ARTICLE]

KILLED PLAYING ROBBER

Boys Back From Hunting Trip Forgot That Gun Was Loaded. Flora, 111., June 15.—Heinrich Carmichael, fourteen years old, confessed that he fired the shot and killed Haymond Harmon, son of Dr. John Harmon, president of McKendree college. Carmichael said he and Harmon returned from a hunting trip and that both forgot the gun which Carmichael carried was loaded. They played robber and the trigger was snapped.