Contributed by Ann Farnsworth

The Fairfield Recorder - Sept. 6, 1895 edition

Groesbeck New Era

Quite a sad and fatal accident happened last Wednesday evening to Walter
Jonston, one of Kosse’s best and noblest young men.  While attempting to clean
up his target rifle, not knowing that it was loaded, the gun fired, the ball
penetrating the stomach, ranged upward and lodged in the lung.  He lived
through the night until 7 o’clock Thursday morning when death relieved him of
his suffering.