. . . we are informed, was caused in a singular manner. A bullet struck his pocket knife, in his left pocket, shivered it to pieces and drove the blade into his body, so that it and not the bullet severed the artery, the rupture of which caused his death. Pieces of the knife were found in his wallet.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1
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