Interesting !! William McClanahan was my great grandfather. Born in 1835, he was 50 when this happened. He died in 1893, and no, I never met him. :>) Thanks for all the time you spend sorting, scanning, and posting these excerpts. Jim Hill -----Original Message----- From: Randi Richardson via <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> To: IN-South-Central <IN-South-Central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, May 20, 2015 12:00 pm Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Fred Berkey Died after Shooting Three Indiana State Sentinel, August 26, 1885. A TRAGEDY Fred Berkey of Salem, Indiana, Shoots a Young Lady, Three Men and Then Blows His Brains Out Salem, Ind., August 23-Fred Berkey, Jr., in a fit of drunken insanity tonight, shot a Miss Laura Klerner twice, turned and shot W. S. Percis slightly on his arm. Running up the street a short distance, he shot William McClanahan. A crowd then gathered and began pursuit when he called to a couple in a buggy to halt. He shot Jordon (consider Jordan a spelling variant) Payne and drove him from the carriage. He then took his buggy and compelled his companion to drive out of town. Pursuit then becoming very close, he put the pistol to his own head and blew his brains out and died in a few minutes while being driven back to town. Miss Klerner is shot in the shoulder and hand, badly but not dangerously. Payne is said to be seriously wounded. McClanahan was shot through the hand. Intense excitement prevails. All agree it is well that young Berkey's career is ended while the respectable family to which he belongs have the sympathy of the public. The suicide has been a wild, roving and dissipated character. The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You're welcome. Making your day makes my day. Randi -----Original Message----- From: in-south-central-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:in-south-central-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hill via Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:53 PM To: gftl@bluemarble.net; in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Fred Berkey Died after Shooting Three Interesting !! William McClanahan was my great grandfather. Born in 1835, he was 50 when this happened. He died in 1893, and no, I never met him. :>) Thanks for all the time you spend sorting, scanning, and posting these excerpts. Jim Hill -----Original Message----- From: Randi Richardson via <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> To: IN-South-Central <IN-South-Central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, May 20, 2015 12:00 pm Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Fred Berkey Died after Shooting Three Indiana State Sentinel, August 26, 1885. A TRAGEDY Fred Berkey of Salem, Indiana, Shoots a Young Lady, Three Men and Then Blows His Brains Out Salem, Ind., August 23-Fred Berkey, Jr., in a fit of drunken insanity tonight, shot a Miss Laura Klerner twice, turned and shot W. S. Percis slightly on his arm. Running up the street a short distance, he shot William McClanahan. A crowd then gathered and began pursuit when he called to a couple in a buggy to halt. He shot Jordon (consider Jordan a spelling variant) Payne and drove him from the carriage. He then took his buggy and compelled his companion to drive out of town. Pursuit then becoming very close, he put the pistol to his own head and blew his brains out and died in a few minutes while being driven back to town. Miss Klerner is shot in the shoulder and hand, badly but not dangerously. Payne is said to be seriously wounded. McClanahan was shot through the hand. Intense excitement prevails. All agree it is well that young Berkey's career is ended while the respectable family to which he belongs have the sympathy of the public. The suicide has been a wild, roving and dissipated character. The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message