The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-07-22


murder in California, if his character
for truth and veracity would not thereby
be impaired.
The Court took the question under
adyisement.
Witness continued: am acquainted
with Mr.. Chamberlain of the land Office
of San Francisco; am not acquainted
with Captain John Miller of San Fran
cisco; am acquainted with Mr.. Put
nam; am acquainted with Mr.. Pierson,
proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel;
am not acquainted at Indian Gulch,
California; was in British Columbia
during two seasons, in Cariboo; Sharp
was to have taken charge of the mine,
and to have an interest in it hereafter;
relocated the Wright mine for the ben
eft of Egbert and Wright, and after I
worked out the assessments told Egg
bert to go and put up a notice in his
and Wright's name, and thereafter to
take care of his mine; never told Rover
that believed he and Sharp were lin
together to relocate the Wright
mine; mp TO the 9Th OF April I did not
think Rover would murder man; his
demeanor up to the 18th instant would
not lead me to believe that he had, or
would, commit murder; up to the time
/ left the camp / looked upon him as
an upright, honorable man, SO far as
murder is concerned, not in any other
light; never believed him to be high
minded man, nor an upright nor hon.
orable man in his dealings; did not I'M
dertake to kill Rover; when We were
digging up the remains / was a little
excited, aud raised shovel and struck
him on the shoulder, light blow, with
the handle.
The defense rested in the cross. ex-
animation at this point until such time
as the Court decided the question under
Amusement.
Redirect by District Attorney Grass: 1
know that the track We measured was
not made on the day We found it, the
party were advancing toward the track
and none of the party had passed the
place in such way as to be able to
make the track; snow.storms are fire.
quent, but there had been no storms
tor week before We found the track,
and if it had been made before storm
its appearance would indicate that-it
would not be so fresh looking as this
track was; all the tracks were evidently
made by the same pair of boots; when
we dug up the arm all the party were
more or less excited: person going
from Wright's mine to the camp would
not necessarily have TO pass the camp
or the spring, although if travelling
over the most common road one would
pass both; examined none of Sharps
papers privately; among other charges
in his mem orandum book there were
some against me for sums of money
that had received from him; part of
the money Received here and part in
California.
Ee.Cross Erdninotion by Mr.. Bonni-
field i: Found great many full and
plain tracks beside tue one we meas
ured; found tracks plain enough to sat-
isfy man that they were all alike;
were tracing tracks to find remains of
Sharp; saw other tracks measured with
stick; did not compare them rs to
size; did not take ont Rover's clothes;
do not rerollect seeing Rover's clothes.
except his boots; there was good trail
from the spring 10 the river; Egbert
and others Travelled that way; did not
go out with Sharp; l went with him
the first time be went to the mine.
This concluded the examination of
McWorthy.
Richard Nash, second witness for the
prosecution, was then introduced and
testified as follows:
/ am Sheriff of this county; have
been since last January; arrested the
defendant Rover in April last on war
rant issued from Justice Davis conrt;
first saw defendant at the sulphur mine;
l was among the first who arrived
there; did not let myself be known as
Sheriff; found no one there with Rover;
l do not remember my conversation
with Rover until after the arrival of
McWortby; l spoke about the mine:
he said he expected his partner; am not
positive whether be said partner or
McWortby; after McWorihy came up
there was n conversation about Sharp;
McWorthy asked Rover if he had seen
Sharp; he replied mo, by God. l
have had other business to attend to-"
we went from the spring to the mine;
arrived ut the mine about sundown;
nothing more was done that evening;
nothing of interest occurred during the
night; / started up the canyon in the
morning; saw where the dirt had been
no been fnlln,usne foot