Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1910 — SHOT WHILE HUNTING. [ARTICLE]

SHOT WHILE HUNTING.

Superintendent of Attica School Killed While Aiming at a Rabbit. Clyde L. Wagner, superintendent of the Attica schools, was killed Saturday morning by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting rabbits near Winthrop. With three companions he was hunting the cotton tails. He had killed one and was in the act of shooting again when his foot slipped in the snow and he fell toward his gun which was discharged, the shots penetrated his right side and lacerated the vital organs. A few words were spoken, medical aid was called, but he was dead when it arrived. The body was taken to Attica. Mr. Wagner had been superintendent of the school at Attica for the past three years and was very popular. His native place was Terre Haute where he completed a course in the State Normal and afterwards received his degree from Indiana University in 1904. His wife was a Miss Butin, a member of a prominent family of Terre Haute. The widow and an infant son survive. Mr. Wagner was a brilliant young man and had a great future before him. —Fowler Leader.