Gentry County MO Archives Obituaries.....Ernst, Solomon O. December 15, 1872
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Winterset Madisonian, 19 Dec 1872
Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, December 19, 1872
Page 4

Accidental Death

     Last Sabbath morning the town was startled with the news that a fellow
citizen had accidently come to his death. The particulars of the accident are
these: About a month ago Solomon O. Ernst came from Gentry county, Missouri, and
hired himself as a laborer to John Wilcox of Union township. Last Saturday he
loaded a double barreled shotgun and during the day discharged on barrel at a
rabbit. He then hung the gun over his bed. Sunday morning he ate his breakfast
and went to his room. He had only had time to get to his room and take down his
gun when a discharge was heard. Mr. Wilcox and family rushed in the room and
found Ernst lying across the bed, his head resting on is hand, dead. The
contents of the gun had entered his breast and passed through his heart. The gun
was loaded with bird shot. It is supposed that in some way he must have struck
the hammer of the gun against the bed, but just how is not so clear.

     The Coronor, Dr. C. H. Coon, was at once notified and he summoned a jury
and proceeded to hold an inquest. The jury returned the verdict that the
deceased came to his death by the accidental discharge of a gun in his own
hands. The medical witnesses were Doctors Tidrick and Cherry. The deceased was
nineteen years of age and unmarried.


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