Light Accidentally Kills Himself
On December 24, 1893, while heading home Christmas Eve on a Missouri, Kansas & Texas train car, William Sidney "Cap" Light, accidentally pulled the trigger of the revolver in his pocket. The bullet severed his femoral artery. At age 30, he hemorrhaged to death within minutes.
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