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Mysterious killing

NAGEL

Posted By: P.Chase (email)
Date: 1/20/2013 at 08:54:13

The Clinton Mirror (Clinton, Iowa) 13 Nov 1897

John Nagel Shot, and Friends say the Shooting Was Accidental.

Whether John Nagel was accidentally killed by himself or one of his friends or intentionally killed by one of the later is not determined by the inquest held on his body in Walnut Grove. With four friends from Davenport Nagel went hunting on his farm. In getting over a fence as they were returning for dinner he was shot through the body and instantly killed. A country justice was called and the immdiate holding of the inquest was demanded by the four companions of the victim. An exonerating verdict stating taht Nagel killed himself accidentally was returned, but there are a number of mysteries besides the fact that the coro-ner was not notified, and it believed that one of the four shot Nagel and that they are conceling the truth. Investigation to follow.


 

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