from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, December 5, 1912—page 1, column 2:
FATAL ACCIDENT
Grover C. Duncan Meets Death By Automatic Revolver
It was a sad Thanksgiving day for Mrs. Hattie Wilcox Duncan, of Franklin township. She found the unconscious body of her husband, Grover C. Duncan, in a chair at their home late in the afternoon and he died at midnight without regaining consciousness.
They had been married only since January. They were young—he was 26. They had ambitions of owning a farm of their own and they were bending every effort to that end.
She had planned to spend the day with her sister, Mrs. Olive Scotten, at Stilesville. She was to drive there and he was to take a hunt across the country, arriving for dinner. When he did not come, she became uneasy and started home. There was nothing about the house out of place. But when she looked within, there was the body of her husband, upright in a chair, his feet resting upon another chair. Upon his lap lay an automatic revolver, one chamber empty, four loaded. Near the center of the right eye brow was a bullet wound.
Dr. Hicks was called but nothing could be done. Justice of the Peace Kennedy acted as coroner and he took evidence of Mrs. Duncan and Dr. Hicks. There was no doubt that he had been cleaning the revolver and it was accidently discharged.