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Show SHOT TO DEATH. Volunteer Falls Hy ilullet of a San Juan Hero. St. Louis. Oct. 31. John F. Coyle, a member of the Nineteenth infantry, stationed at Puerto llieo. here on a furlough, was shot dead by John Derr, a member of Company A, Twenty-first United States infantry, stationed at Plattsburg, N. . , also here on a sick furlough. The affair occured in a saloon on Greyer avenue. Witnesses say Coyle attempted to stab Deer with a knife and Deer shot in self-defense. Coyle was removed to the city hospital alive, but died soon afterward. He refused re-fused to make an ante-mortem statement, state-ment, except to call Derr a coward for shooting him. Derr surrendered to the police. Derr participated in the fight at San Juan, and his brother, Arthur, was shot down at his side by the Spaniards. |