Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Nichols, Cora, May 1892

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May 28, 1892  McDonald Outlook

            Near McKee’s Rocks on Monday evening, Miss Cora NICHOLS, 
a well-educated young lady, was found dead, with a bullet in her head, 
in her father’s barn.  She had gone there for a chicken.  She took the 
revolver but did not shoot it.  It has been caught alive, its head was 
cut off, and it was lying beside her.  The revolver with three empty 
barrels was near.  The ball entering the head had been fired from a 
distance, there being no powder marks.  It is believed that some 
Hungarians working nearby had been fired at by her three times 
in return for some insult offered and that they returned the 
fire and killed her.