Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-13
SERIOUS AND PROBABLY FATAL
SHOOTING.

morning, about o'clock. Murphy
opened fire on his victim when neal
Koppel Il Platt's corner and pursued
him, firing, through Benton's stable.
The wounded man fell. in a faint condi-
ton in front of the Post Office. He
was subsequently conveyed to Cotton S
Drug Store, where DR.. Allen examined
his wounds. It was found that the ball
had entered the back in the left lilac
region and had penetrated the sacrum
and passed through that bone and thence
through the body. parts Of the projectile
| showing themselves under the surface of
| the right groin. He was conveyed from
| the Drug Store to the residence of Mrs.
| McLain in the lower part of the town.
Mr. H. K. Nudge, Deputy L. S. Mar
! shall. arrested Murphy and lodged him
| in jail This shooting is the result of
an ARRAY which took place between the
two men at divers Camp near the head
of the Elliot tiume, on Saturday last.
| These two men are bakers, and have
been acting as cooks, and some feeling of
jealousy on Murphy's part toward Nc
\ II,
ing for a camp other than the one whore
Murphy was employed, and owned by
the same parties in whose employ him
self wasj caused quarrel between
them, and in the fight which ensued,
McCallum hit Murphy on the forehead
with amustard-cup, knocking him down,
backing both his eyes and inhicting
several severe Commissions upon his fore
head. Murphy came to town and said
he had been cut on the head with a
knife in the hands of McCallum. but
McCa.lum, himself, says lie hit him
with cup containing mustard Yes
terday afternoon we went to the Jail and
had an interview with Murphy. He
seemed perfectly calm and sober and
told US his story in a straightforward,
candid fashion. He said he was ma
tive of Inverness, in the Highlands of
Scotland that he came to this coast as
long ago as 1916 as a seaman on board
the British war ship ''Gorgon,' from
which vessel he deserted when at Val
paradise; aud that he came to San Fran
cisco in lS4?. He further said that he
was baker, and that he sometimes
wrought at his trade and sometimes
acted as cook Early in the war of the
rebellion he enlisted as private in the
Sd California Regiment, Col. Conner,
and served until honorably discharged
He says his father was gardener to Sir
Gordon Cumming, the noted African eI-
plorer and hunter. His version of the
fracas at divers Camp is, that Mccall
lum took advantage of him when drunk
and beat him about the head and face
with bottle. As to the shooting, he
says he came down here and went to
Sprott (who keeps a bakery in Henry
Caffal's old place and told him if Johnny,
meaning AcCallum) would fight him
a square, stand-up tist-fght, or a fight |
with knives, he would forgive him, else
wise he must punish him. In re-
spouse to our inquiry if McCallum had |
attacked him or made any hostile de- |
monstration when they met, yesterday |
morning. he said his impression was
that McCallum was about to draw a |
pistol; and that in order to get the start |
of the fight he drew his own pistol and |
fired first. After l had opened fire."
said he, "of course l had to keep on
shooting" Murphy is stocky y fell
low, about five-feet six in hight. and has
the reputation of bruiser. We should
IL
forty-6ve years of age. -. Many
rumors being rife as to the condition Of
the wounded man, we visited him about
s o'clock last evening. We found him,
a stout, healthy looking man with fair,
short, curly hair and blue eyes and rest
ing rather nervously in his bed and
breathing in a short, distressed kind of
way. He seemed perfectly self-possess-
ed, however, and quite inclined to talk
He explained the difficulty at divers as
given above. that is to say, that Murphy
had attempted to get the better of him,
and that he had knocked him down with
a mustard-cup. (He evidently feared an
encounter with Murphy on even terms;
g for" said he, Murphy is q prize
fighter and am only = working man.
He gave his age as "a years, and said he
was born in Scotland. Has been
On this coast about ten years;
IS a baker by trade; had seen
much service as ships steward in
The East Indies where he was once
nearly devoured by shark, and in
Africa: and came here from Eureka
about six weeks ago. He returned here,
be said. from divers to avoid any fur
her difficulty with Murphy His wound,
which We looked at, has the usual angry
appearance Of a gun shot wound and in
he groin, where the fractured bullet has
partly come through, there is slight,
'caritied-looking protrusion and a con-
surface of BLACK and blue"
,uticle. The bullet is said, by the medi-
al men who have examined the wound.
o have passed through the bladder. The
county physician, Doctor Herrick, is in