Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-01-17
Reese River Items,

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tPrsm the Reese River Re.eills, JahdAfy i%l
Shepard Wilson. charged With hav-
Ing stopped the Battle Nountaln stage
and rinlng the express box OF Wells,
Fargo & Co., was tried last evening In
the District Court. and the Jury, after
being out tifteen minutes, came Into
court and rendered q verdict Of guilty
as charged. Shep. acted a. his own
lawyer aud conducted his case with
marked ability. proving himself q per-
feet success ~ q cross-examlnsr ; but
his cunning avalled him nothing. It
ls too bad that q great, rich and pow
erful corporation like Wells, Fargo &
Co. should descend 40 low as to put
up q Job on an Innocent Individual 70
rob him Of his wedding ceat. IL 10 .
good coat ; aud Shop. swore that he
bought It to get married In In Salt
Lake City. Notwithstanding which, the
prosecution had the ~etfrontsry to In
troduce the coat as evidence. Shep.
say he didn't have a fair show /; and,
In consideration of the fact that he
stopped the stage with n stick and did
net get a cent, we think he ought to
have been allowed to keep the coat to
wear to Carson. TIL, morning we are
informed that he has become suddenly
insane ; but Warden LYMAN Is said to
make q speciality Of diseases OF tho
brain, particularly kleptomanla, and
Shep. will have the advantages OF n
medical attendant, who thoroughly
understands his case. He will be sen-
fenced on Thursday next.
This morning Wilson sent for Judge
Mckinney and requested Of His Honor,
as a special favor, thar he might be
hanged Instead OF being sent to the
state Prison. Ills Honor, hnwever,
FROM statutory reasons, felt obliged to
refuse this exceedingly reasonable re-
quest, whereupon. q short time alter
wards tho redoubtable knight Of the
road attempted to hang himself with
his socks. lie had succeeded In faster.
Ing those fragrant articles OF apparel
around his neck, and was tearing a
strip or OF one OF his blankets for the
balance OF the strengthening apparatus
when Thomas Thonas. \ fellow prls.
oner, gave the alarm, aud George Len
hart came to the rescue, took the socks
from the neck Of the would.be self.
murderer and sent them To the wash.
Il Is tho general opinion around the
Court.house that Shop was making a
bluif.
len bars Of bullion. tile product OF
| tho Belmont mine, arrived OH last
evenings stage. This Il the first ship
ment since tho strike, and We may
now look for n steady stream OF the
argentiferous material to flow OH Its
course to tide water. The stock slIarps
Of some Of the San Francisco papers
have been asserting that the recent
strike was a fraud ; that the ore body
was limited la size !; aud that the ore
itself was not what IL was cracked up
to be. Everybody knows that the
mining stock reporters OF the Post
and Chronicle could not be "inilu-
enced." so we must accept their state
ment as true. despite the fact that the
mine has begun to turn out bullion
aud Il sure TO continue doing 80 for
some time to come. The ore l. so poor
In quality that = good deal OF 1t will
not pass through the battery screens
| owing to the wire silver contained In
It. II General Gsshwiler takes our adj
| Vice he will do rs these papers say he
has done" unlosd." We reckon that
Cash" has not "unloaded" to any
alarming extent.