Friday, February 5, 2010

Miss Nancy Ann Wallace, of Ottumwa . . .

. . . was accidently shot, a few days since, by her brother, who was carelessly playing with a pistol. The ball lodged in her forehead, penetrating several inches, but strange to say, without immediate fatal results. When will people ever learn that firearms are dangerous playthings?

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 23, 1862, p. 2

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