Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — MEDARYVILLE MAN IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

MEDARYVILLE MAN IS KILLED

When Rifle Was Accidentally Discharged Wednesday Morning. Albert Henry, a well known harness maker of Medaryville, who conducted a harness store in town but resided on a farm about two miles south of Medaryville, met instant death about 2 o’clock Wednesday morning by accidentally shooting himself with a 22 calibre rifle. Henry had heard someone, in his chicken house and got out of bed, seized the rifle and. went outside. Soon after other members of the family heard a rifle shot and later went outside to Investigate. They found Mr. Henry lying on the ground qead. The gun had evidently gone off as he set the butt of the rifle on the ground, the bullet having passed upward through his heart, causing instant death. It is said that soon after the shot was heard an automobile was also heard driving away, and it was thought by some that Mr. Henry had been killed by the Chicken thieves. The nature of tthe wound, •however, and the finding of the bullet, which is said to have been the same calibre as the rifle he carried, •precludes any possibility of his having been murdered, The Democrat is infornied. Mr. Henry was a man of about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and several Children. He was held in high esteem and was a prominent member of the Christian church at Medaryville.