Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-07

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the Gay LOtharie Dine BADLY
wounded and the Other Arrested
The Daughter Follows the
Lover.
From the Silver State, 4th inst.
The passengers on the emigrant train
which arrived here shortly after dark
last evening were i'll a fearful state of
excitement. The moment the carr
stopped there were loud calls for a doc
tor and muttered threats of hanging.
1t seemed as if the ubiquitous 1901"
was on board the train, the forward
cars of which were alive with excited
men and OInen rushing to and fro.
Constable Pryor, who had been up to
GOlconda, was aboard the train, and
arrested one of the passengers who
shot and seriously, if not fatally,
wounded a fellow passenger. The OH
Ger handcuffed his prisoner, at whose
side chung a rather good looking young
girl, apparently sixteen or seventeen
years OF age, as he walked through
town to the Office of the Justice of the
Peace. In the forward emigrant car
sat u middle aged man, whose shirt
was covered with blood, with his wife
and two children, u a boy aged II or
IA years, the other a girl a few years
younger, surrounded by an excited
crowd of emigrants, who wero loud in
their denunciations of the william who
had won a daughters affections and
wounded her fat her for attempting to
protect her. The railroad agent, w.
IL. WEIGH, was called to the scene, and
Immediately dispatched a messenger
for DIR. Hanson. Meantime the wound
ed man and wife and children walked
to the Lafayette Hotel, where, while
awaiting the arrival of the doctor, he
told the following story Of the shoot
ing affair and his connection with the
nan who shot him: He said his name
is Benjamin Richards, from Fairfield,
Wayne county, Illinois, where up To
the time he left for California he was
| engaged In the business of photog-
raphy. Some two or three months
ago a man by the name of w. #.
Worthington, from New Albany, In
| diana, where he has a wife and
three children, entered into partner
ship with him, he being an artist.
They closed out their business and
started for California. On the road
he noticed that Worthington was
very familiar with his daughter-a girl
in her teens-and 80 far east as Green
River, he talked W tn him about it and
told him 10 let the girl alone. This
had NJ effect whatever, and the girl
was completely captivated by Worth
ington, who threatened to blow him
through if he said a word before the
people about it. Yesterday some words
passed between them on the subject,
and last evening about dark, shortly
amer the train left Tule, six miles east
of here, Worthington and the girl were
sitting OH q coal a in front of the emf
grant car in which they travelled. He
asked her to come into the car, but she
paid no attention to what he said. He
then determined to assume q fathers
prerogation and get the girl away from
Worthington. He took his gun and
vent out on the coal car, some hot
ton also fired, and two shots from his
pistol hit him. DR.. Hanson examined
the wounds and found that one of the
bullets entered his breast near the
right nipple and lodged i'm the mus
cles of the back; the other entered the
abdomen on the left side near the lower
rib. The former was extracted through
an incision made in the back, the other
the doctor was unable to find by prob.
ing, and 1t yet remains in his body,
and may have penetrated the intes-
tines, in which event it would be al
most certain to prove fatal.
When the officers informed the pris-
oner that ne would have to be locked
up, the girl begged to be permitted ia
remain with him. They were taken to