Sunday, April 29, 2012

Capt. Slaymaker’s death, (Iowa Second) . . .

. . . 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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