The late Homicide with a brickbat.
The inquest on Geo. Bailey, private in the Davis Light Dragoons, who died at 1½ o'clock on Wednesday last, at the Medical College, showed that his skull had been fractured by some hard substance, which had driven in the bone; that an operation was performed by Drs. Conway and Joynes, and a portion of the temple and frontal bones taken away — part by the fingers and part by the instruments, which left the brain and its coverings exposed. The "hard substance" that inflicted the injury is said to have been a brickbat. The evidence before the Coroner did not show who threw the missile, though Wm. D. Bowman is under arrest for so doing.

The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 11 Apr 1862