From the March 19, 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Bedford, Ind.--Charley Winters, aged 10, and Willie Babbitt, about the same age, played William Tell, and in lieu of an apple Babbitt placed a corncob upon his head. Winters, using a revolver, shot at the corncob, and the ball striking the Babbitt boy in the forehead, killed him instantly.”