Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — SHOWMAN’S WOUND FATAL. [ARTICLE]

SHOWMAN’S WOUND FATAL.

Fred Curtis, Who Was Shot in Right Lung, Is Dead. Sullivan, Ind., May 7. —Fred Curtis, age thirty-five, trainmaster for the Haag shows, who was shot last Thursday night as the show was leaving after giving a performance here, died Wednesday. The body was taken to Billman’s morgue and will be sent to Curtis home in New Vork. A charge of murder will be preferred against Claude Purcell, a baseball player, who was arrested on an assault charge following the shooting. He has been out under bond of SSOO. The wound that killed Curtis was in the right lung. He was unmarried and had been in the show business seventeen years.