Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — SHOT DEAD BY AN ACTOR [ARTICLE]

SHOT DEAD BY AN ACTOR

Attacked For Flirting, Theatrical Man Kills One and Wounds Two. Fairfield, 111., June 18.—Dr. Charles L. Leininger, secretary of the Wayne County Fail association, is dead with a bullet hole in his heart. Frank McCullough is dying with a gunshot wound in his abdomen. Richard Sloan is shot through the thigh. ‘Herbert Orrin Pinnick, eighteen years old of French Lick Springs, India in jail. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between residents here and actors of a traveling company. The theatrical people had been ordered to cease paying attention to Fairfield girls. Pinnick continued to flirt and was attacked. Three pistol shots rang out and Leininger dropped. Pinnick surrendered.