Whiteside County IL Archives News.....Fulton Man Shot In Head November 22, 1899
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Maquoketa Record November 22, 1899
Maquoketa Record, November 22, 1899.

Fulton Man Shot in Head

Late Sunday night a shooting scrape occurred at Pringle’s Saloon, Lyons, in
which George Mealey, a stove molder employed at the Mississippi Valley Stove
Works in Fulton, Illinois, was shot through the head and is now lying at the
point of death in Mercy Hospital. Frank Strohm, who fired the probably fatal
shot, is now imprisoned in the city jail. Strohm had no intention of shooting
Mealey it seems, but intended the bullet for Billy Reagan, a cigar maker, with
whom he had been quarreling. Strohm and Reagan came out of Pringle’s Saloon
about 12 o’clock and renewed their quarrel. Strohm finally drew a revolver.
Seeing this, Mealey sprang between the men and cried for Strohm to not shoot,
but the trigger was pulled and a bullet crashed into Mealey’s forehead.


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