The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-16


MUsDEn AT EMPIRE Yesterday morn
ing at Empire IL thi> county man
uam-d WIN A d ckrr wa shot and
kid By n Nnrw-giau, or Dane by the
nam OF George Price. We hear il
sta e ti'-t tue tao mn had had a
quarrel ~ Sunday over II game of
card-. Is surmi>ei that the killing
was the r-suI' Of t-eilng grow rng out
Of E "pIre to"nship, tri-ernphed to
Sbrr # .>slst, aud D-pnry Sh-r riff Butler
is TO" lodged IL jan. An irqHest was
held on,tne body OF Decker t., Coroner
Benee 'ud as we learn from District
Attorney n-li> the t,tios,ng f,cis arr
elici' I'd Til" d-~easrd VAS in the bar
room nt th- N-vad, Hnt.l WHEN Price
cam in, wh" dew revolver when
ao'.ut r." feet from hisu aud fired, with
out giving warning, the sh,, taking
ELECT III Decker neck and causing him
to tai upom tn- floor Price tneu rush,
ed up to b. sicIu. stood r.. b. over hin
and shot hIn again : TINS second shot
going 'hforgh Devk-rs head and
cau-ing iu-t- t dea b. ThrSe are 10
suhS'an TIE f,cts as lated ny Judge
Wells. Or Price we know l:tle or
notnlug. D cker Sas It native of Maine
and sw--n rwea,y four and twenty
Eve teerS If age. he ca,ne 10 Nevada
in 1855 rfler nsvlng served some time
IN tnr Uri"n army. IN wh'cn service be
was woa"ded mi Afterwards houornbly
discharged. Our informant says be has
a m"ih-r living hen he small pnx
prevailed here about n year since h.
acted "a nurse at the i'esr house and
subsequently attended the family of Mr.
Fife "h-u they had that disrase As
we arr iri 'rmei Ii" bore n good character
for eact Hblen+ss aud W. arr told that
be aud PrIer had mad up their tficult. |
les on Monday IT tie tacts Of this |
case have been reported 10 us correctly, |
this was n coli-b CODED murder. Price |
will underg, nm examination before |
Justice Wa z sittiug as committing |
nagiS'rnt@, to-day
?. S.-Since writing the above we learn
from Deputy Sheriff Butler who called upon
Us last evening t. furnish US with further par
;icu!ar>, that Constable Harkiu who was in
the shooting, upon hearing the shots entered
the barronm Jast in time 10 see Price fire the
second sht aud to see hun attempt to cock
his pistol Tor third shot. Harhin then ar
rested him ahd took away his pistol, where
upon Price asked to be released for a moment,
which Ieques' bring granted. ht stepped away
= few PAGES and drew aDother revol,e from
his boot and was about raising it when Har-
kin ''trnnp,d" On him with the pistol he bad
taken and compelled him to a final surrender.
This makes the M tier look still worse.
THE CORONER I>QUEsr.-Crrnner Bence
has kindly furnished us with the following:
State of Nevada, County OF Onn>by.-Be-
'cre H. II. Bence, C"rintr. In the matter
Of the inqni>Iflon npan h. body of William
A. DecNrr, d, ceased: We, the undersigned,
he Jurors summoned TO appear before II. H.
I3ence, the Coroner of the county of Ormsby,
It Empire City, on the l5t day of February,
4. ID. 1870. 10 inquire mo the cause of the
Heath OF William 4. Decker, having been
July sworn accoi .ng 10 law, and having
made such inGn!sltI,n after inspecting the
1ody, and hearing the testimony adduced,
ipon our oatHs each and all do say, that we
ind the deceased WAS named William A.
Decker; WAS a native Of South Carolina, late
rom Brighton, IN the State Of Maine, aged
a years; aud that lie came to his death on
he 10th thfteenth) d > # February, A. D.
$40, IN this county, tron the effects of piss
oil shots fired BY the hand Of one George
Price.
F. D. Stadtmuiler, A B Saben,
j. T. Longabough, J. l.. Bright.
Mror