11 May 1853
Fatal Accident -- Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, an accident occurred in the Marine Barracks, by which Charles Tansill, a lad 12 years of age, lost his life.
A loaded gun was left in the quarters of Mr. Luskey, where his son George and young Tansill were. Both being under the impression that the gun was unloaded, Luskey, at the request of Tansill, put a cap upon it and fired it, the ball entered [Charles Tansill]'s mouth and passed through the back of his head near the top, carrying with it a portion of the brain. He died instantly. The verdict of the Coroner's inquest was that Charles Tansill came to his death by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of George Luskey. The fathers of the boys belong to the Marine Corps.
[Charles Tansill is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. His father was Sargent Grandison S. Tansill, who is buried in Antioch Baptist Church cemetery in Haymarket.]
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