Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Another Man Killed at the Kankakee River. [ARTICLE]

Another Man Killed at the Kankakee River.

Last Sunday, at the Diana club house, at the Kankakee river, near Thayer, on the L. N. A. & 0., railroad, m. the north part of Newton county, a party of sportsmen from Chicago were having a pigeon shooting match. Besides the men who w T ere shooting the match, several men stood outside the limits of the range, to shoot tbe birds which the men who were shooting the match failed to kill. Among these were Joseph Verveault and -Martin Batler, two Canadian hrenchmen, from Chicago, old friends and thoroughly drunk. The two men were close together and were about to change their position to another part of tire ground, and in some way Verveault, who was stated to have been reeling drunk, staggered against and probably grasped to prevent himself from friling, the gun of Batler, when it was discharged, and the whole charge passed through his chest from side to side, killing him instantly. Squire Ray, of lto6e Lawn, was called, and gave a verdict in accordance with the facts above stated. . Verveault leaves a wife and several children, in Chicago.