OBIT: Tony FURGUELL and Infant Son, 1916, Arrow, Somerset County, PA

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Furguell, Tony & Infant Son

DRUNKEN FATHER KILLS CHILD AND SELF - Crazed by whiskey, Tony Furguell, a miner 
employed at Arrow, shot his four months old son to death Wednesday afternoon and 
turning the revolver on himself, committed suicide. Furguell arrived home drunk 
and immediately started quarreling with his wife, who was holding the babe in 
her arms. The frenzied father fired two shots at his wife as she was in the act 
of fleeing to the house of a neighbor. One of them struck the babe, passing 
through the intestines. Before the neighbors could interfere, Furguell fired a 
bullet into his brain, causing instant death. Mrs. Furguell was only slightly 
wounded, one of the bullets grazing the left breast and inflicting a flesh 
wound. Mother and child were taken to the Windber Hospital where blood on the 
child's clothing lead to an investigation which revealed that it had been shot 
in the intestines. The child lived until Thursday afternoon when death 
intervened.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 26, 1916