Hopkinsville (KY) Kentuckian, May 3, 1904, p. 4.
D. M. Robins (consider Robbins a spelling variant), independent candidate
for mayor of Jeffersonville, Ind., was shot at the other night, and his life
was saved by a bible he carried in a pocket of his coat that the assassin's
bullet struck and was stopped in its course. The Elkton Progress also
mentioned the case of a man in Tennessee whose life was saved in the same
way except that the Tennessean's arm was a flask of whisky.