People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — DEAD IN HIS CAR. [ARTICLE]

DEAD IN HIS CAR.

Express Messenger Accidentally Shot by His Own Pistol. Ogden, Utah, Nov. 23.—As the Rio Grande Western train pulled into Ogden at 1 o'clock a. m. Express Messenger Sayers failed to open his car, the door of which was forced, when the messenger was found on the floor dead. A bullet had passed through his heart. It is supposed he was about to lock the safe, and the pistol was accidentally discharged. His books and money were intact, and there is no suspicion of foul play. Sayers lived in Denver