The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
SH ASIA COURIER
Death of Harry Love, the Texan Ranpe,

1he San Jose Patriot of June 3Oth has the
following:
:, Ever since the marriage of Harry Love.
Tue IeXan Hanger, with the widow Bennett
e'e"t OF ten years ago or more. there have
been from time to time turmoiIs in the family
-quarrels-separation lawsuits. reunions
ana separation again. In fact there has
peen no harmony in the family. and their do
mestic affairs have too often been the subiact
OF ventilation by courts and gossips. The
woman has never borne an enviable reputa-
.ioh' ana there are persons who know them
poth We'll who maintain that Harry Love,
with all his faults. was the best of the two.
ana the least to blame in the troubles of their
married lie. These are matters we know
llttie about and do not care to know more
Ii seems that of late there was a sort of re-
Cancellation between the parties kind of
halt reconciliation, whereby they were for
time enabled to live together under the same
root-but there was no sympathy, no unity
Of feeling no disposition, on the part of the
woman at least, TO forget the past-no yearn-
ing for happier commingling of thought
and affection. Harry Love felt that he was
only tolerated there, and he imagined that
the great obstacle to the re-establshment Of
true marital relations in the family, was in
the person of one Christian Eiversen, Ger
man laborer employed by the wife to work
upon the place. He told Eiversen to leave
he ordered him off the premises-he threat
ened his life if he did not GO Eiversen re-
fused to obey or to regard these threats. He
said he was employed by the wife. who paid
him, and he had nothing to do with Harry
Love. While she desired his services on the
place, he would remain. He tried to get
Harry put under bonds to keep the pea e:
but we are told failed in this for the magis-
trate held that the husband although living
on the wlte's property had right to prevent
persons obnoxious to him from coming there
However this may be, what was the
ground for not putting Harry under bonds,
the parties continued to occupy the same re-
lations and positions, and yesterday, Eiversen
and Mrs. Love came into San Juse together
on business of some sort. and here Harry
Love, brooding over his troubles, saw them
together. He left the city making threats :;
he declared that he would 90 home and
guard his premises, and that if Eiversen en-
tered there he should do it over his dead
Dody. Harry Love, on arriving at home lay
down by rail fence near the gate leading
from the road to his house. Armed with IA
double barreled shotgun and six shootin q
revolving pistol, and provided with bag of
protracted defense of the main entrance. A
daH ghter of Mrs, Love by her former hus-
band observing this state Of things and un-
derstanding its meaning, kept watch for the
return OF her mother and the German Eiver-
sen, and when they came in sight, she ran
out into the road and gave them notice of
the disposition made for the defense. They
had come within fifty yards of the gate where
Harry Love lay. when the girl made this
communication. Eiversen imm ediatelv sprang
from the wagon, and looking toward the gate
he saw Harry Love behind the fence with
the barrel of the shot gun protruding through
1t and pointing at him he Immediately
drew his revolver, and both parties fired
simultaneously. Eiversen was shot in the
face and arm with some small bird shot. in
fctlng no serious injury. His pistol shot
did not hit Love. Although Love was pro-
tected by the fence, E.versen immediately
advanced upon him. receiving another dis-
charge from Loves shotgun. and five ont f
the six charges of his revolver n ne of which
struck him except one pistol ball, received in
the right arm. disabling that member. Ad
vancing and firing as he advanced cool and
undismayed by Levels rapid firing. Eiversen
reached the fence, and bending over fired
again. the ball striking Love IN the right
arin above the elbow, bre king the bone
Harry Love broke out into ii wild howl,
calling for help, and then ran as fast as he
could toward the house. Tae German sprang
over the fence and gave pursuit. On the way
he picked up Loves pistol, which he had
dropped on the way, and fired one undis-
charged barrel at the retreating Love. Both
parties each having disabled arm, came
together at the house, when Eiverson struck
Love heavy blow on the back of the head
with the empty pistol which felled him to
the ground aud left deep cut They Crap
pied and tugged tie ground, but were
soon separated by parties who came up. So
ended this horrible brutal and helish scene.
Eiversen's arm was paralyzed by the ball
which entered it, but the bone was not bro
ken; the bird shot in the face he seemed to
think but little Of. Love received two severe
wounds-a broken arm and a very bad cut
on the back of the head with pistol. The
physicians, on consultation believed it neces-
sarv to take off the broken arm. We under
stand that they took it off at the socket Of
the shoulder-taking it off and out altogether
and that they administered in the opera
ton Il large amount of chloroform to the suE
ferer. Love died as the operation was com
pleted, and, Of course, there is much talk and
varying opinions about the case and the
treatment.