Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Repeats Trick of William Tell. [ARTICLE]

Repeats Trick of William Tell.

Shelbyville, April 25.—With only one life instead of two dependent on the outcome, James L Hymer of Indianapolis, a salesman for an arms manufacturing company, proved that Bill Tell didn’t have anything on him as a marksman, when he shot a small apple from the head of Miss Nellie Strickler, a bookkeeper at the Doble & Griffey hardware store, In this Instance the boy in the case. In "his emulation of Sir William of old, Hymer used a .22 caliber rifle, shooting from a distance of 100 feet. The apple was bored through the center. Miss Strickler was protected only by a pile of paper, against which she stood with a part of her head visible above. Her home is at Boggstown. James I. Hymer, who Is a member of the Indianapolis Gun club, is known as an expert rifleman.