OBIT: John D. McDONALD, 1893, Mapleton, Huntingdon County, PA

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SHOT BY HIS BROTHER.
Huntingdon's Chief of Police May Die from His Injuries.

  HUNTINGDON, May 29. - Chief of Police John D. McDonald, of Mapleton, 
this county, was shot and mortally wounded by his brother Henry at a 
late hour Saturday night.  The latter, with several companions, all of 
whom had been drinking, became engaged in a noisy street fight, when 
Chief McDonald arrested his brother and conveyed him to the lock up.  
The chief here released his brother on the latter's promise to go home.  
But instead of doing so Henry went to a neighbor's, borrowed a revolver 
and hastened to the scene of the disturbance just as Chief McDonald had 
arrested another of the combatants.  With a profane threat Henry 
hastily drew the revolver and fire three shots at his brother, Chief 
McDonald, one of which penetrated his right side above the hip and tore 
its way through the intestines.  The chief is reported as sinking 
rapidly.  Henry McDonald was at once arrested and brought to the county 
jail.  He was a foreman at Mapleton tannery and has a grown up family 
of children.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday Evening, May 29, 1893