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LflLUfftLL rfllALLia(Continued from Pace One)some tracks during the day which lie thought would lend to the capture of a valuable pell. His son who was called to the scene after the shooting, informed a News-Record reporter that he- probably would have accompanied his father but for tlie .fact tliut he * felt too tired after a day of hard work at shucking corn.Doubt exists as to whether Kisling went to the Caldwell barn in search of a skunk or for potatoes. When the man walked to the barn door, Cold- j well told officers that bis first thought , _ was that he was after potatoes. He j J. aimed to shoot lower than he did. j (j Caldwell added, but from bis higher | j perch in the haymow he miscalcnlated his distance In the excitement. I xShot Carries 30 Feet.Kisling was shot at a distance of about. 30 feet. When Undretakcr Herman Kyger, of Kyger’s Shop, prepared the body for burial; he fourfd both of Ihe wads from the load lodged In (he wound. This is considered very unusual for a shot Tired from any distance. The shot took a downward course as Caldwell was shooting from above and some of the balls probably penetrated the dead man’s lungs and heart. The force of the discharge cut his neck open, severing the arteries on one side.Caldwell told officers that potatoes had been stolen from the outer barn which is about t lirce-quart ors of a mile from the homestead. lie laid in wait one night last week with no results. He decided to wait again Inst night and went to the barn about dark. Wrapped in a blanket, he then concealed himself in the hny, on the opposite side of the barn from where the sacked potatoes were stored.Made Circuit of Barn.According to Caldwell, Kisling first approached the barn from the east side, coming In around a straw stack outside. He stepped up into the open door and tried to open a gate which led to the northslde mow in which the potatoes were stored at the opposite end. Failing to open the gate. Kisling then went out around the north end of the barn, Caldwell said, and rattled the end windows, apparently In an effort to gain entrance.He then walked on around to the front, or west side, of the structure and was shot as he stepped op to the open doors. The potatoes which had been stolen before were in a bin jimlt; to the left of the open doors. A half dozen or more sacks remained of the year’s yield.Barn Filled with Corn. (Cnldwell explained that the doors j ,U| )f the bam had been left open at light in order T’or the freshly-shucked :om which was piled all over the cen-er section of th'e barn floor to ma-ure properly. It was pointed out that psllng liad ready access to the corn ipon his first entrance into the barn (ut Caldwell said he made no attempt' o remove any of it.Funeral services for the victml will *e held at 11 o’clock this morning rom the Mt. Olive Brethren Church, he Rev. George W. Chambers officiat-ng. This eliureh is near the Kisling ionic.A grent throng for that section of he county gnlhored at tiib Caldwell ,nr nas news of the shooting spread, Vord of the tragedy spread like wild-Irc in Harrisonburg and many persons rom the countysent rushed to the ceno. McGaheysvillc, Rlkton, Penn Alrd and other communities also ,'cre welt represented, ’anle.iLeii HMOND MAN SLAYSfainepicRida;rlv1Lahylt;acoicoitheItirnAriofvvilt;cei
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Mon, Nov 28, 1927
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