. . . 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 bade into his body, so that it and
not the bullet severed the artery, the rupture of which cause his death. Pieces of the knife were found in has wallet.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2
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