The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1873-07-12
SHOOTING AT PIocHE.

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In the Record of the 9Th instant, We
find an account of most extraordinary
shooting scrape, and extract the follow
ing;
AT one o'clock ON Sunday morning,
just alter our paper had been put TO
press, and most of our people had retired,
a shooting scrape occurred ON Meadow
valley street, in front of j.. Lynch 3
chop-house. Lynch was the party most
seriously injured, it being almost certain
at present writing thar he cannot recover.
The unfortunate man is native of Ire
land, about 36 years of age, and formerly
lived at Portland, Oregon, at Downie-
vile, California, and at San Francisco.
where his wife now lives. ITO prevent
any mistake in identity-John C. Lynch
being also resident of this city-it
should be understood that John G. Lynch
is proprietor of the Fashion saloon, Cor
ner Main and Lacour streets, and is
formerly from Newport, r. I.) But to
the shooting affair. Three distinct dis
charges from "a revolver were heard by
those who had notretired to rest. Officer
woodruff, hearing n pistol shot, hurried
IN the direction of the sound on his
way he heard another shot and before il
was possible for him to prevent it, an
other shot was fired. Reaching the
scene of the disturbance he seized james
Harrington, by whom the shooting was
done, and conveyed him to Jail This
ended the shooting. The cause which
led to the lamentable events which we
are called upon to chronicle was very
trifling atfaiI. Frank Schoonmaker was
IN the chop-house, and had with him a
small dog. While there Harrington,
Con. Sullivan and Edmund ONeil came
IN aud ordered some refreshments.
Sullivan took hold of the dog and in
playing with it, hurt the animal.
sehoonmaker expostulated with him,
when he apologized, saying that he had
no intention of hurting the dog. The
matter had apparently been settled ami
cably, but when all the parties had cot
out on the sidewalk, O'Neii unbraided
Sullivan, saying that he was a id
coward to apologize about hurting a dog.
Schoonmaker made some reply, which
drew an offensive remark from O'Neil
and Schoonmakker struck him. The
parties clinched and then Harrington.
who seems not to have had ANYTHING To
do with the first difficulty, opened fire
WIN slx-shooter. 1t is difficult to saw
with precision just how three shots could
have caused so much mischief. but that
there were only three shots we have the
evidence of our own senses and the tes-
tlmony of officer Woodruff and many
others who heard them, and that five
wounds were inflicted the bodies of the
men attest. 1t is most likely, however.
that one shot passed through Sulivan's
left wrist into Lyneh's right shoulder,
mother struck Schoonmaker in the side.
ana without entering the cavity passed
lround and struck O'Neil in the hip.
ms apparently strange result may be
explained by the tact that Sehoonmaker
vas probably STOPPING, and so brought
he upper portion of his body in range
With 0 O'Neil's hip) Still another (and
probably the last) shot entered the brain |
II John IL. Lynch, inhicting wound |
rom the effects of which DR.. Bergstein, |
Who was called, could not hope for his
ecoyery. James Harrington, the man
" whose hands the shooting was done
= regarded as n dangerous fellow, and |
Ies killed three men before. He is n
mall, spare-made man, below the me-
Iium height, but is higb-tempered, and
$ ever ready to use weapons on any
plausible pretext. He is now in lail
waiting the issue of Lynch's wounds
'efore preliminary examination can be
lad, and as the Grand Jury will get to
york i'll few days, it is probable that
lis case will not be inquired into bv the