Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pierreborga, Reginald "Pete Borga" May 13, 1913
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark May 14, 1913

                  SHOT TO DEATH BY ANGRY WATCHMAN

        Reginald Pierreborga Is Killed Over Apparently Trifling Incident

John Bell, watchman at the plant of the James G. Wilson Manufacturing 
Company, South Norfolk, shot and almost instantly killed Reginald 
Pierreborga, better know as Pete Borga, last evening at 8 o'clock.
He told the coroner's jury that Pierreborga had gone over his head and asked 
permission of Mr. Wilson to go on the property, which act incensed him and 
he shot him.
The coroner's jury, presided over by County Coroner J.W. Abbitt, and with 
Deputy Sheriff L.D. Rawles, foreman, concluded the hearing of the case after 
this statement from Bell, and rendered a verdict that Bell shot Pierreborga 
with intend to kill, and recommended that he be committed to the county jail 
to await action of the grand jury.
The testimony before the jury was that Pierreborga, in company with Luke 
Hughes, was returning from the river front on the Southern Branch, where 
they had been to look at a boat belonging to Hughes.
A dog belonging to Hughes had strayed off from them and they were whistling 
for it.  This attracted the attention of Bell and he informed them that no 
hunting was allowed on the premises.  Pierreborga informed him that they 
were not hunting.  Bell then asked him if he had not told him to stay off 
the premises.  Pierreborga said he had but informed Bell that he was not on 
the property, that they were on a street by the property, and stated further 
that he had permission from "P.H." (meaning P.H Wilson) to go on the 
property when he got ready.  These words were hardly out of his mouth when 
Bell fired a load of No. 2 shot into Pierreborga's body.  Pierreborga called 
to Hughes that he had been shot and was dying.
He started to run when Bell fired a second load into his body.  After 
running about twenty feet he fell and expired in about twenty minutes.
Coroner Abbitt, who examined the body, said that it was literally shot to 
pieces.
Pierreborga and Hughes lived within a hundred yards of the Wilson plant.  
Pierreborga was employed with J.S. Bell, Jr., butcher, as a driver for 
several years and is said to have been a reliable man.  He was 23 years old 
and is survived by a widow about 22 years old and his mother and father, Mr. 
and Mrs. Phorwald Pierreborga of Norway.
The body was turned over to Funeral Director E. Lee Cox for burial which 
will take place this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Magnolia Cemetery.

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