People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Veterans Fisht Each Other. [ARTICLE]

Veterans Fisht Each Other.

Milwaukee, Wis., Oct 31.—Patrick Coughlin, a veteran of the Soldiers’ home, was literally slashed to pieces by Thomas Kelly, another inmate of the home. The men were comrades and roomed together. Coughlin, who was in the navy during the war, found fault with the way in which Kelly took care of the room during his watch, claiming that it was not shipshape. The two old men then fought with each other, and Kelly was the victor. In revenge for being put in the guard house he stabbed Coughlin with a longbladed pocket knife. Both men are over seventy years of age. Coughlin is dying and Kelly was arrested on a warrant from the federal court.