Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — Killed in Mock Battle. [ARTICLE]

Killed in Mock Battle.

Valparaiso, May 24. —Thomas Murray, fifteen, was killed in a mock battle between himself and Charles Cunningham, a neighbor boy. The parents of the boys had gone to commencement exercises and the lads each procured a gun, Thinking them not loaded, each pulled a trigger and Cunningham’s weapon went off with a roar. Murray fell mortally wounded. He lived only a short time.