People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Killed a Sleeping Brother. [ARTICLE]

Killed a Sleeping Brother.

Bloomington, 111., Sept 25.— Two brothers named Du ter were playing at their home Sunday night One bf them, aged 17, playfully threw at the other a short stick with a bent wire in the end of it, a contrivance used for cleaning out an organ. He missed his aim and the sharp hook-shaped wire was imbedded in the throat of Arnold Duter, the 9-months-old brother of the boys, lying in a cradle by Ms mother’s side. The wire severed the carotid artery and jugular vein and also the wind pipe. The child was dead in less than a minute.