South Bend (IN) News-Times, October 5, 1915,available online at https://newspaper.library.in.gov. Bloomington, Indiana, October 5-Perry Eads, 40 years old, is in the city hospital with his right temple crushed and William Mershon, a former convict, is held, it being believed that he attacked Eads who is not expected to live. The police have not been able to learn whether Eads' injury is due to an attack or to a train accident. The police learned that Eads and Mershon had a fight Saturday night over an alleged insult by Eads to the wife of Mershon and that Mershon had threatened to kill Eads before morning. Mr. Mershon admitted that her husband was out all night. He was found Sunday in a barn loft.