Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-11-28
WORK OF The VIGlLANrES IN
TRrCkEE.
How the Editor Of the Republican
Lost His Lie.

Cur ulspalcLS> lev uANs aSo Coii-
tanned a brief paragraph announcing
the death Of d. &. Frink, editor Of the
Truekee Republicans, al the hands OF
the Vigilance Committee la;ely organ
lied in that town. Il appears that
Frink was one of the chief men in the
movemen; TO rid rruckee Of the pres
enee of roughs and ~deseradoes. TWEEN
~ or thirty masked men, Frink among
the number. visited a certain saloon in
search Of Objectionable characters. All
of the party entered the building. ex-
cept Frink, who proceeded TO the back
entrance. He was there mistaken for
some one else, and killed by one of his
own men. The particulars of the kill
in. as ELECTED by the Corouer's in
quest are given in the Truckee Rspu6-
.icar. George Howard, the keeper OF
the saloon, testified as follows:
Last night. between II and u o'clock,
/ was a my place OF business. a sa-
loon, on East Main street, Trnckee;
there were three or four persons i'll my
saloon, drinking. | was behind the
bar when a company of twenty TO
thirty men came IN l can't tell exact
ly. They had pistols drawn and point
ed al me and ordered me TO
Throw up my IL.
l did so. They ordered me TO take a
light and show them through the
house. They did not say for What pur-
pose. | took "a lamp and started
through a back door leading from the
saloon into a hall. One door pens
INFO The kitchen, one mo a bedroom.
II ln.O the saloon, and one outdoors,
or oet>i1e of the house. The door
opening TO the outside of the hodse has
one OF The upper panels broken out.
the party first searched the bedroom
opening from the matt. As | turned
from tine bedroom door | saw a MAJ on
the outside OF the door with the broken
panel,
with u Pistol of Some Kind in his
Hani.
Laveled a. ma through the broken
pan.l. The nearest mar to me inside
OF tue house fired a shot i'll the direc-
tiUnof the mar who was pointing his
pistol through the broken panel. NV
light Was extinyuished by the dis
charge of the pistol. The ma at the
broken panel door, outside, said: 'Oh!
On! OH and fell. l saw no more ut
him ~ that door. | was then ordered
by the masked men to renew my light,
which I did, AMI showed the men
through my house. After searching
my house they all lett by the front
door. l heard what | thought
Policeman's Whistle.
A part Of the crowd stared toward F.
Rtbel's dwelling, AMI passed. OF to-
ward Froat stree. In a minute or
two | SAN three or four men come out
OF The alley leading from the broken
panel door Of my house 20 the street.
They were carrying 4 man. or human
body. 1t was masked. Cap and
mask shown witness. which he sta eS
was like that worn by the person be-
ing carried away from my hou e..
When the bearers of the body got Oft
the sidewalk one of them took the
body on his shoulder and went in the
same direction the other part of the
masked men had gone, toward Front
street. saw no more of that crowd.
| saw the man WAC iirsi the shot |
have spoken of. | think he wore a
short gray coat, and black cap and
mask; abou. five fest eight inches in
height. heavy set or build. ! think it
was a short five-shoo,er that this man
fired. There were no other shots
fired about my house during the
night.