Union County PA Archives News.....Shot His Companion for a Deed December 5, 1905
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Hollidaysburg (Blair County) PA Register December 5, 1905
Mistaken for a deer and shot to death by his gunning companion is the sad tale
of a day’s sport that Wilbert Oberdorf, 23 years old, of West Buffalo township,
Union county, had planned. Oberdorf and his lifelong companion, Joseph Biddle
aged 21 years, were out with a party of ten hunters gunning for deer and bear in
the Brush Valley narrows, and became separated from the main body. About noon on
Saturday Oberdorf and Biddle found signs which led them to believe that a deer
was near. The separated so as to close in upon the animal from opposite
directions. Biddle saw a laurel bush move and shot. He saw something drop, and
hastening to the spot, was horrified to find his bosom friend, Oberdorf, shot
through the head. Death was instantaneous.
Overdorf leaves a widow and child.


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