Urbana Citizen & Gazette
January 8, 1885
Robert Craig, aged 21, was killed at the railroad near Rolling Stock Works.
Urbana Daily Citizen
January 7, 1885
Last night about ten o'clock, Robert Craig, a young man twenty one years of age, met his death by some means on the street running north and south from the railroad to the United States Rolling Stock Works. Just how he was killed is not perfectly clear. As by some it is claimed he was murdered, and by others that it was suicide, but the most probable cause is that he accidentally shot himself.
The young man has been living with his brother-in-law, DW McKee, and has been working in the Bridge Works of William Black. He left his home at four o'clock for the purpose of going to Mr Black for some money that was due him, and received the amount of nine dollars from his employer. After this he came up town and from all appearances drank to some extent. When he started for home he was under the influence of liquor. About ten o'clock the family was startled by the report of a revolver followed by the groans of somebody. They immediately took a light and went out to see what was the matter. When they reached the spot they found young Craig lying on his back, with a Sharps shooter in his right hand, breathing his last. Dr WA Mosgrove was sent for, but when he arrived the man was dead. An examination of the body revealed the fact that the man had just been on his knees, as they were muddy, and indicated that he had stumbled and fell. The revolver was in his hand with two of the chambers empty, one of them having the appearance of recently being shot. The ball entered the right side about two inches below the nipple, but the course it took after entering the body was not found. From all the facts in the case, the most reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that the shooting was accidental.
Young Craig has been attacked in the neighborhood twice before, and once was cut with a knife, and at another time was knocked down with a stone. Since then he has been carrying a revolver, and it is believed that when he reched the railroad he took the revolver in his hand, and when in front of the home stumbled in a hole, and in the fall the revolver was discharged with the above result. He never spoke after the shot. Coronor Dowell was summoned and will hold an inquest this afternoon.
Urbana Daily citizen
January 8, 1885
The coroners inquest on the death of Robert Craig did not reveal any particulars in addition to those given yesterday, except that Nellie Connors, the young lady whom Craig had been paying attention to, testified that there had been no misunderstanding between them, and that he was paying her steady attention. After all the evidence was in the coroner made up his verdict as follows:
I, the undersigned, Coroner of Champaign County, O, having duly inquired into as to whom and by what means Robert Craig, whose dead body was found on Talbott Ave, Urbana, O, on the 7th day of January, 1885, came to his death.
After having examined said body, and heard the evidence, I do find the deceased came to his death from the effect of a pistol ball which entered his right breast one inch below the nipple, self inflicted during a fall on Talbott Avenue.
January 8, 1885
Robert Craig, aged 21, was killed at the railroad near Rolling Stock Works.
Urbana Daily Citizen
January 7, 1885
Last night about ten o'clock, Robert Craig, a young man twenty one years of age, met his death by some means on the street running north and south from the railroad to the United States Rolling Stock Works. Just how he was killed is not perfectly clear. As by some it is claimed he was murdered, and by others that it was suicide, but the most probable cause is that he accidentally shot himself.
The young man has been living with his brother-in-law, DW McKee, and has been working in the Bridge Works of William Black. He left his home at four o'clock for the purpose of going to Mr Black for some money that was due him, and received the amount of nine dollars from his employer. After this he came up town and from all appearances drank to some extent. When he started for home he was under the influence of liquor. About ten o'clock the family was startled by the report of a revolver followed by the groans of somebody. They immediately took a light and went out to see what was the matter. When they reached the spot they found young Craig lying on his back, with a Sharps shooter in his right hand, breathing his last. Dr WA Mosgrove was sent for, but when he arrived the man was dead. An examination of the body revealed the fact that the man had just been on his knees, as they were muddy, and indicated that he had stumbled and fell. The revolver was in his hand with two of the chambers empty, one of them having the appearance of recently being shot. The ball entered the right side about two inches below the nipple, but the course it took after entering the body was not found. From all the facts in the case, the most reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that the shooting was accidental.
Young Craig has been attacked in the neighborhood twice before, and once was cut with a knife, and at another time was knocked down with a stone. Since then he has been carrying a revolver, and it is believed that when he reched the railroad he took the revolver in his hand, and when in front of the home stumbled in a hole, and in the fall the revolver was discharged with the above result. He never spoke after the shot. Coronor Dowell was summoned and will hold an inquest this afternoon.
Urbana Daily citizen
January 8, 1885
The coroners inquest on the death of Robert Craig did not reveal any particulars in addition to those given yesterday, except that Nellie Connors, the young lady whom Craig had been paying attention to, testified that there had been no misunderstanding between them, and that he was paying her steady attention. After all the evidence was in the coroner made up his verdict as follows:
I, the undersigned, Coroner of Champaign County, O, having duly inquired into as to whom and by what means Robert Craig, whose dead body was found on Talbott Ave, Urbana, O, on the 7th day of January, 1885, came to his death.
After having examined said body, and heard the evidence, I do find the deceased came to his death from the effect of a pistol ball which entered his right breast one inch below the nipple, self inflicted during a fall on Talbott Avenue.
Urbana Citizen & Gazette
January 8, 1885
Robert Craig, aged 21, was killed at the railroad near Rolling Stock Works.
Urbana Daily Citizen
January 7, 1885
Last night about ten o'clock, Robert Craig, a young man twenty one years of age, met his death by some means on the street running north and south from the railroad to the United States Rolling Stock Works. Just how he was killed is not perfectly clear. As by some it is claimed he was murdered, and by others that it was suicide, but the most probable cause is that he accidentally shot himself.
The young man has been living with his brother-in-law, DW McKee, and has been working in the Bridge Works of William Black. He left his home at four o'clock for the purpose of going to Mr Black for some money that was due him, and received the amount of nine dollars from his employer. After this he came up town and from all appearances drank to some extent. When he started for home he was under the influence of liquor. About ten o'clock the family was startled by the report of a revolver followed by the groans of somebody. They immediately took a light and went out to see what was the matter. When they reached the spot they found young Craig lying on his back, with a Sharps shooter in his right hand, breathing his last. Dr WA Mosgrove was sent for, but when he arrived the man was dead. An examination of the body revealed the fact that the man had just been on his knees, as they were muddy, and indicated that he had stumbled and fell. The revolver was in his hand with two of the chambers empty, one of them having the appearance of recently being shot. The ball entered the right side about two inches below the nipple, but the course it took after entering the body was not found. From all the facts in the case, the most reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that the shooting was accidental.
Young Craig has been attacked in the neighborhood twice before, and once was cut with a knife, and at another time was knocked down with a stone. Since then he has been carrying a revolver, and it is believed that when he reched the railroad he took the revolver in his hand, and when in front of the home stumbled in a hole, and in the fall the revolver was discharged with the above result. He never spoke after the shot. Coronor Dowell was summoned and will hold an inquest this afternoon.
Urbana Daily citizen
January 8, 1885
The coroners inquest on the death of Robert Craig did not reveal any particulars in addition to those given yesterday, except that Nellie Connors, the young lady whom Craig had been paying attention to, testified that there had been no misunderstanding between them, and that he was paying her steady attention. After all the evidence was in the coroner made up his verdict as follows:
I, the undersigned, Coroner of Champaign County, O, having duly inquired into as to whom and by what means Robert Craig, whose dead body was found on Talbott Ave, Urbana, O, on the 7th day of January, 1885, came to his death.
After having examined said body, and heard the evidence, I do find the deceased came to his death from the effect of a pistol ball which entered his right breast one inch below the nipple, self inflicted during a fall on Talbott Avenue.
January 8, 1885
Robert Craig, aged 21, was killed at the railroad near Rolling Stock Works.
Urbana Daily Citizen
January 7, 1885
Last night about ten o'clock, Robert Craig, a young man twenty one years of age, met his death by some means on the street running north and south from the railroad to the United States Rolling Stock Works. Just how he was killed is not perfectly clear. As by some it is claimed he was murdered, and by others that it was suicide, but the most probable cause is that he accidentally shot himself.
The young man has been living with his brother-in-law, DW McKee, and has been working in the Bridge Works of William Black. He left his home at four o'clock for the purpose of going to Mr Black for some money that was due him, and received the amount of nine dollars from his employer. After this he came up town and from all appearances drank to some extent. When he started for home he was under the influence of liquor. About ten o'clock the family was startled by the report of a revolver followed by the groans of somebody. They immediately took a light and went out to see what was the matter. When they reached the spot they found young Craig lying on his back, with a Sharps shooter in his right hand, breathing his last. Dr WA Mosgrove was sent for, but when he arrived the man was dead. An examination of the body revealed the fact that the man had just been on his knees, as they were muddy, and indicated that he had stumbled and fell. The revolver was in his hand with two of the chambers empty, one of them having the appearance of recently being shot. The ball entered the right side about two inches below the nipple, but the course it took after entering the body was not found. From all the facts in the case, the most reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that the shooting was accidental.
Young Craig has been attacked in the neighborhood twice before, and once was cut with a knife, and at another time was knocked down with a stone. Since then he has been carrying a revolver, and it is believed that when he reched the railroad he took the revolver in his hand, and when in front of the home stumbled in a hole, and in the fall the revolver was discharged with the above result. He never spoke after the shot. Coronor Dowell was summoned and will hold an inquest this afternoon.
Urbana Daily citizen
January 8, 1885
The coroners inquest on the death of Robert Craig did not reveal any particulars in addition to those given yesterday, except that Nellie Connors, the young lady whom Craig had been paying attention to, testified that there had been no misunderstanding between them, and that he was paying her steady attention. After all the evidence was in the coroner made up his verdict as follows:
I, the undersigned, Coroner of Champaign County, O, having duly inquired into as to whom and by what means Robert Craig, whose dead body was found on Talbott Ave, Urbana, O, on the 7th day of January, 1885, came to his death.
After having examined said body, and heard the evidence, I do find the deceased came to his death from the effect of a pistol ball which entered his right breast one inch below the nipple, self inflicted during a fall on Talbott Avenue.
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