The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-07


At about 0 o'clock yesterday morning
our principal street, and in its most pop
ulous center, was the scene of another
homicide. At that hour, whilst people
were passing and repassing along Main
street. a man who belongs to Sherman
town, named John U. Toles, was noticed
by Mr.. Haas, of Livingston & Co.'s dry
goods establishment, two doors below the
Stone Saloon, to be standing on the upper
doorstep, and occasionally taking fur
tive glances up the street, as if searching
for somebody. He continued to occupy
this position for about half on hour, and
Mr.. Haas, thinking his conduct strange,
asked him if he wanted anything. lie
said. no he was only waiting to see a
friend Shortly after this conversation,
the report of a pistol was heard, and the
man was seen to walk towards the Stone
Saloon. with a revolver pointed, and
resting upon one of his arms. At the
same time a young man named Thomas
Beehan, who was partly sitting upon and
partly leaning against a projection near
the lower door of the Stone building, was
seen to rise and stngger mp the street, to-
wards the main entrance, where he fell.
EY-oficer Casey rushed across the street,
and, Selling the pistol in the hands OF
the man who did the shooting. arrested
and took him TO the Stationhouse. On
the way, he requested Mr.. Casey to let
him go, as he wished to deliver himself
up.
THE VICTIM.
Thomas Beehan, Che was generally
known as Little Tommy } after falling
in the doorway of Estes building, lived
but a few minutes. DIR. McMeans, DR..
Deal and Thomas Tenant were engaged
in conversation near the scene of the
staying at the time of the report, and
the former remarked that it was no fire.
cracker. They then proceeded up the
street, and got to Beehan while he was
still alive; but 1t was evident that the
bullet had taken a vital course, aud that
nothing could save him. The ball en-
tered the left side. went clear through
the body, passing the region of the
heart. came out at the right side aud
buried itself in the arm, just above the
elbow. As soon as death ~supervened.
iut DOu1 WIS fBnNfAtn 10 tue iA1ibltl'I ,
room. at the City Hall, and Coroner Hen
ley summoned n jury and held an in
quest. The testimony ELECTED was main
ly to the effect of the information con
yeyed above, with the exception that no
witness was introduced who could testify
TO having seen the actual shooting. The
jury rendered a verdict that deceased
was a native of New York, aged about 81,
and came to his death by n pistol shot,
fired by some unknown person; but,
from the evidence adduced, supposed to
have been by john Toles, the party
arrested
THE PRESUMED ORIGIN OF THE ATFAIR.
There seems TO be but little doubt this
homicide was the result Of deliberate de-
termination, on account of an injury
committed long since at S~hermantown,
and which has ranked in the breast of
the slayer until il urged him to this aw-
ful act Of retribution. Some time last
Fall a difficulty took place between Toles
and BeehAn. in a saloon ut that place,
about a horse race. as some say, which
resulted in Tommy making a dash at
Toles with n knife, producing a wound
in the right arm and p%aralyzing the
HtTNth 81 Nlit ut NtN ilHt VI hHi VI hiN
right hand. which is shriveled and nerve
less. The affair was brought before the
grand inry last Fall: but for some reason
the indictment was ignored. Toles. how
ever, had a constant reminder of theiniury
before him in his powerless and shrunken
arm, and evidently brooded upon it,
to fatal elimination. One Of the wit
nesses in the inqnisition, young Mr..
Clnat aIutf1 xagfgrluN an tho gfunn that
some three weeks since he casually heard
Toles make use Of some remark in ref
erence to the old affair which he believed
to import that he (Toles) would get
even on Beehan. He could not, how
ever, swear positively that the threat i'm
piled killing. as he paid no serious atten-
ton TO its exact significance at the time.
There can be little question, however, as
TO what constituted the main impelling
incentive to the homicide. We have
heard that deceased. even since the
original affair, has taken every oppor-
tnnity to snub and insult the prisoner.
and had gone so far as to shove against
him and push him from the sidewalk;
but this is positively denied by parties
who knew Tommy well, and who declare
that he always expressed sorrow for the
unfortunate cutting event, and wonld do
anything in his power if he could have
recalled the act. In n pocket of deceased
was found n devout prayer or invocation
to Our Saviour. 1t is in manuscript,
and bears evidence of having been hand
led. Deceased has been miscellaneously
but not steadily employed ut odd Jobs
around the Stone Saloon for some time.
lie trimmed lamps, and did bill-postinQ
and other choral Offices in connection
with the Atheneum. The friends of de.
ceased have raised n burial fund, and
the interment will take place to-day from
the City Sexton Office. We learn, from
friends of Toles, that he formerly kept a
livery stable at Shermantown. and that
since he was cut, his arm had gradually
wasted until he found himself unable to
support, by labor. his mother and sister,
who are dependent upon him. He
orooded over the fact, and became de-
lected. and melancholy because of his
increasing helplessness. which was ever
present and sonred his disposition into a
species Of misanthropy. His case will
DC brought before the Grand Jury to-day
oy the District Attorney.