OBIT:  BORLICK, Jack; 1907; Mineral Point, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 20 Sep 1907
Volume 41, Number 38


Shooting was Accidental! 
George Slaga Who Shot and Killed Jack Borlick at Mineral 
Point Sunday Expected to Give Himself Up

The shooting of Jack Borlick by George Slago Sunday evening 
at Mineral Point is believed to have been purely accidental 
and it is expected that Slago, who ran away after realizing 
what he had done, will eventually return to his boarding 
house at Mineral Point and give himself up.

Borlick, Slaga and a number of foreigners who are employed 
at the Black Diamond Mines at Mineral Point, this county, 
gathered at one of the houses there and spent Sunday in 
their usual manner.  Toward evening one of the men produced 
a revolver and suggested that a target be got up and some 
practice shooting indulged in.

Slaga was handling the gun when it was apparently 
discharged and Borlick, who was standing not far away, 
dropped to the ground, dying almost instantly. At a post 
mortem examination Monday morning by Drs. Glass and 
Fitzgerald of South Fork, it was found that the bullet 
fractured the third rib, passed through a lung, severed the 
pulmonary artery and lodged in the spine.  An inquest was 
held by Coroner Prothero and the jury held that Borlick's 
death was due to an accident.

The body of the dead man was buried at South Fork Tuesday 
morning by Undertaker C. O. Dimond.