Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1869-08-20
From the Nevada Inland Empire, Aug. IL
FIENDISW AFFAIR.

A Young Mans Brains Literally Bealem
out with stones and siiek 49, 1 1aoasy
NE xVomnded Man Picked Zip in nm Al
most Dying stare.
Yesterday morning at about five O'Clock
younp man. aged 90 years, by the name OF
Joseph Buys, was discovered on the ridge or
ledge of rocks just above Chinatown, IN the
northern portion of this city, in an lnsensl,
BILE condition. He was lying etrelched at
full length on his back, and beside him lay
a piece of cord wood, bloody and hIokeh,
and several large STOKES, all of which had
evidently been used by the foul assassin:
The officers, Immediately on beng appllsed
OF the fact, removed the injured man TO the
station house, when DR.. MeAleans was sent
for, who came and dressed his wounds.
Upon examination it was asceftalned iuat
his skull had been broken and mashed IN
two places besides several other severe cuts
and bruises about the face and head. Out
of one of the worst wounds on the head
niece of rock as large as an English walnut
xvas eXtrncted The circumstances connec-
teI with This foul and bloody affair, as lar as
we have been able 10 learn them, are aooul
as follows: Young Buys had recently SOFA
an interest IN wood ranch five miles north
of the town, and was 10 have started for his
home in Utah 10 day. Several acquaintances
were around with him during the early part
of the evening" and number OF social
glasses were INDUCED in. The party grad
uallv narrowed down to young Buys and II
man nv the name of g. W. Thomas, who
was also to have left for Elko on one Of
Yesterdays stages. Thomas was gong TO-
Illinois, and had laid over, as lie himself
says, several days, while Buys was get'lng
his business arranged TO go to Utah.
AT about O'Clock, according to Thomas,
the two started TO bed intending to SLEEP
together. When just below the Silver Brick
Saloon, Thomas says man whom he ana
not know, brushed along brislty, and adj
dressing BUYS Familiarity, invited Inn &c
take a run around town, inasmuch as he was
going 10 leave In the morning. Buys com
piled with the request, and inns Is lhe lasl
Thomas saw OF him. A tent occupied by
William Ryan, a cook, and some one else
and near BY the spot where Buys was lount
in the morning, leave evidence of foul play
i'm the vicinity On the rocks ana step
about The door, and particularly al the bacl
mart of the structure, was 10 be seen larg
quantity of blood standing in one place, N
pool. Ryan was Immediately arrested Of
the supposition that he had committed th'
brutal assault and endeAvOred to explain Ill
bloody condition Of his premises by exhibi
ting an old sore on one of his legs, but whlc
annarently had to some extent been bleeding
We understand that he claimed that his len
had been blown down during the night, an
hurt his leg airesh. That the tent had nc
been blown, and that Ryan's statement wa
false, was abundantly apparent from all III
surroundings The man who stopped wit
RYAN was not TO be found Ryan clothin
was bloody IN many places, and the theor
of the case is that lie assaulted his victim
or about tho tent, and then carried him q
the ridge, where, alter few more blow
with heavy stones and pieces Of wood,
left HIM, snpposing he was extinct. Rya
formerly lived in Carson, and has recent
been cooking for Dnherly & MaIchant,
this city. He is an Irshman by birth, al
looks like man that has drank 10 exces
BUYS was from Centerville, Davis count
Utah Territory, nine miles north Of Sa
Lake City. He had been in White PHI
about three months, and most of that tin
had made his home on the wood ranc
which he recently sold. The amount
money supposed TO have been in his posst
sion is estimated by his friends at from 81
to 5000 He had booked his name to lea
by Woodruff Il Ennor's stage line yeslerda
and it is understood that news OF the da
eerous illness oil a younger brother was c
ling him home. Soon after his woun
were dressed, he was taken 10 the couI
hospital, but at latest accounts little he
was entertained OF his recovery.