Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-10
THE EVENING NEWS.


our neIgnDOrlnS to"u N'''
which seems to have its " dead man for
breakfast" about every six months.
The particulars Of this last killing
scrape we have learned from a reliable
man living in Silver, who was one Of
the first persons who saw tho corpse.
An Euglishman by the name Of Charles
Watson, aged between 30 and 30 years,
who was formerly an engineer, but lost
his left arm by an accident, has beer
keeping II drinking saloon in lower Sill
yer City, near the stone house brewery,
for several years, and said to have been
rather d~issipatcd in his habits. Another
E~uglishman, named George Newton,
aged about forty years, and employed
for some time past rs a workman IN
Thomas Taylor's boiler works, IN the
neighborhood, has been in the habit oil
visiting Watson's saloon, and getting
drunkebeinc also of very ~dissipated
habits. Last evening, about SIX
O'Clock, Newton stabbed Watson in
the lcft side with q large pocket
knife, the blade being about four
inches long, and killed him. The
killing is shrouded in mystery, exceptso
far as Newton has confessed to the per-
pe,ration Of the foul and unnatural deed.
About seven o'clock, Newton went to
Mr.. Osborn's clearinghouse nearly OPP
poSite Watson's saloon, and, being n q
drunken condition, told several persons
- The had killed Watson, but tho per-
sons uc SruErru Prtt . nttrutIon to
him. lie then inquired for Mr.. Osborn
aud told him that he had killed " the
Id -n of a b-h. That he had in
suited him, and had drawn weapons on
him, and that he had TO kill him in
sclf.defense," etc. Mr.. Osborn got sew
eral persons TO accompany him, and en-
tcrins the saloon, which was entirely
dark, there being no lights in it, they
found the corpse of Watson lying on the
floor behind the bar. They examined
il, and found it cold, and a pool OF
blood on the floor. They made further
examinations, and found that marks on
the floor showed that the body had been
dragged from the front door where 1t
had fallen to q back room, and from
there back again to the bar-room, and
behind the counter, dragged, apparently
feet foremost. Newton was present at
this examination of the corpse and the
premises, and said that they had quar-
relied up stairs, had come to blows and
clenched, and both rolled down the
stairs into the bar-room, and that
Watson had then attacked him " with
n case-knife, or q sheath-knife, and q
pistol" The person Of Watson was eS-
amined, and no weapon was found, NOT
was any weapon found except an old
rusty pistol under the bar, hat had no
load in it;-nor the smell Of gunpowder.
The persons present at this time, seemed
to have come to the conclusion that the
stabbing took place in the back room
of the saloon, and that Watson run
through the bar-room, reached the front
door, and just as he got 1t open he fell
across the threshold, with his head arms
and shoulders out, and that he Instantly
died in that position. \ man living OPP
posite saw him fall, but believing him
intoxicated, as he had frequently seen
him that way before, gave no heed to 1t,
exeeptremarkiug that he believed Charly
was drunk again and just then seeing
somebody whom he could not recognise,
because it was nearly dark, pull the
body in by the heels and close the door.
Newton wished to be arrested, and he
was taken in charge by Mr.. Osborn, who
conducted him up town, and handed
him over to the Constable OF Silver
City, and Justice B~outon, after hearing
the circumstances, committed him to
tho lookup, and set eleven O'Clock to-
day for n preliminary examination.
The murderer's own confession Will
cause his committal to the county Jail
10 await the action Of the Grand Jury
of Lyon county. We belive it was a
cowardly, cold-blooded murder-and the
killing in self-defense a sneaking dodge
for while Newton is a large, able-bod-
led man, the poor victim had but one
arm, and was u feeble, weakly man, and
no weapons were about him.
A FERocrous HAr.-At Monahan's
saloon, n few days since, we were shown
u particularly desperate looking hat, oil
the Russian 20 shake" order. II is made
Of q Russian black bear skin, and is
or three feet high, two or three feet
wide, and two or three feet thick, with
n brass shield in front, ornamcnted
with an eagle and other emblems. In
one side among the shaggy hair is a
green plume, or something OF the KIND,
and a green braid strap or stirrup comes
down under the wearer's nose in order
to hold his head fast to the big hat.
This formidable concern is similar to
the head dress of the Montgomery
Guard, San Francisco, and belongs to
the Swecny Guard of this town. 1t is
TO be worn by the "pioneer' OF the
Company, who is allogorically supposed
to walk ahead with the standard bearer,
carrying an axe in order to hew a road
for the Company through all obstacles
which may happen in the way. The
largest aud handsomest man in the
Company will wear it.
.ARoUr ExcRLsIoR.-Captain Martin
White arrived yesterday from Meadow
Lake, which place he took in his way in
coming up from San Francisco. He
saws that the snow in Meadow Lake is
~ feet deep-up to the second story
windows Of most Of the houses. The
weather there was quite warm and
pleasant, however, during the greater
part of the time that Mr.. White was in
the town. The Enterprise mill will
start up about the first Of June, also the
mill Of the Mohawk and Montreal Com
pany. At present the nov is about IL
feet deep around both mills. The Cap
tain looks as though he had wintered in
the Polar regions, owing to the burning
rays Of the sun reflected from The snow.
GAS SnUr oEr.-owing to the fire.
qucnt breakage of the gas pipes at tho
southern part Of Virginia, in the vicin-
i,y of the st. Louis Brewery, in conse-
quence of the continual settling OF the
surface over the Savage mine, tho Gas
Company has been obliged to shut OIL
the gas entirely, south Of Morton's sa-
loon and linnOr store IN o. str0at. The