People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — TRAGEDY IN ILLINOIS. [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY IN ILLINOIS.

Two Wounded i.i un Unprovoked Shoot, ing in a Farinfi nine. Peoria, Ilk, Feb. 21. —John Bowlby, a farmer, bis wife, Albert Wallace, his brothei-in-law, and Thomas Lyman, a hired band, were singing in tlioir house at Dillon township Tuesday evening when Wallace entered the bedroam, secured his double-barreled shoe gun and a number, of s' ells. Ti en l e walked a round the house a few times and final! comrfit need shooting through the window at the people inside. The first shot struck Bov 11 y in the hand, the second struck Mrs. Bowlby, causing injuries v.-’, ic-b it is thought will result in her death. By this, time Lyman was on the front i creh to investigate and was greeted with a fusillade. He was wounded, but retreated to the house. Wallace was arrested. He Is thought to be insane.