Obituary of Harry Wilderman, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA 1882

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Council Bluffs, IA: Daily Nonpareil  28 April 1882
Friday Morning, p. 5
A Tragedy At Glenwood
A Fatal Shooting Affray at Glenwood
Harry Wilderman Shot and Killed There By a Playmate
  Glenwood, Iowa. April 27. — Last evening as the shades of night began to fall 
upon our little , quiet city, the report of a revolver might have been heard in 
an out-of-the-way place in the suburbs.  Soon the cries of a human being 
attracted the attention of those living near the place, and on their hastening 
to the scene it was found that a lad about 13 years old, Harry Wilderman, had 
been shot.  He was carried to the home of his parents in another part of the 
city, surgical aid summoned and everything done that could be to bring on a 
reaction from his nervous prostration.  Every effort, however, proved abortive 
and abought 12 o’clock at night the lad died.
  The statement of the tragedy from the dying boy’s lips was about as follows: 
Passing along the way he met another lad by the name of Jesse Du Foe who held a 
revolver, No. 22 caliber, upon him and demanded that he throw up his hands.  
This Harry refused to do.  The demand was repeated by Du Foe with the threat 
that if it were not complied with he would shoot him.  Harry then asked, “What 
would you shoot me for?”  Du Foe’s only reply was “will you throw up your hands 
or I will shoot you.”  Harry knowing no cause for such a demand and refusing to 
accede, not thinking that his antagonist was really in earnest, stll 
disregarded the order when Jesse fired upon him, the ball taking effect about 
the point of the lowest floating rib and passing into the abdomen on the right 
side.
  Later. — Jesse Du Foe having been taken by the officers of the law, has 
stated that he and HarryWilderman were out playing “Jesse James” and that when 
he demanded of Harry that he should put up his hands, he examined his revolver 
and thought he was pulling trigger in on empty chamber, knowing that three 
chambers of his revolver were empty at the time.  The fatal shot, however, only 
proved how sadly he was mistaken.
  The public in general will agree with the writer hereof in the belief that 
“Jesse James” is one of the worst games boys or men can play — demoralizing and 
fatal in all its places.                  Vox.