Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — SHOT HIS SISTER. [ARTICLE]

SHOT HIS SISTER.

Deed of a Thoughtless Young Man Who Had No Notion of Murder; 1 Sunday afternoon William Shrader, a young man living a few miles south of Batesville, picked up a revolver which be supp wed had no load In it and, pointing it at his sister, a young woman, remarked in fun that he would shoot her. The revolver went off, the ball striking Miss Shrader In the eye and killing her almost instantly.