The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-27

hall an hour high. Then l thought / d
quit and 60 to camp. I started over
the hill, in front of the mine; as soon
as l got to the top of the hill l could
see the camp plainly. / saw two men
there; one | took to be Sharp. They
were in standing position when l
first saw them; went on up the ravine
a short distance further; when Sharp
sat down on a small box, resting his
elbows on his knees; looked as If he
was reading a newspaper. This was
Immediately in front of the camp door;
walked on until had got within about
200 yards of camp, looking that way all
the time; finally / saw Sharp throw
his hands up over his head and falling
backwards; at the same time l heard
the report of gun; the other man
stood Immediately in front of him,
with the gun presented from the hip.
When l saw that 1 lay down on the
ground in the sagebrush. bat where /
could see everything. Shortly after
this man got a rope that was hanging
on the tree; he first tied it around his
neck and commenced dragging him
that did not seem to suit him; he took
it off and tied it AROUND his feet. and
then started mp the canyon, dragging
him until he got about 100 yards, out
of sight of the cabin, to a cedar tree,
where the remains were afterwards
buried by the Sheriff; then he returned
to camp after leaving the body, drag
cling a green cedar limb back to camp;
| suppose that was to hide the track he
had made by dragging the body; | lay
still few minutes longer, then came to
camp as if / had not noticed anything
unusual. Washed my hands and got
ready for supper; this man was eating
supper at the time. While drying my
hands at the fire / noticed netting
squirmiug in the Goals; it looked like a
piece of bacon rind; took a stick and
poked it up; this man said " Come,
amt You going to have supper to-
night" at the same time grabbing the
teapot and placing it over the fire. to
obstruct the fume of this article; but I
discovered before l stopped looking it
was portion of mans hat; could
distinctly see the rim and a portion of
the crown, and was satisfied from the
color it was a portion of Sharp's hat; l
said nothing, and was afraid to look
that way any more, and sat down to
eat supper; while eating he said You
had better 60 to bed soon to. night, for
| want you to get off to the springs
very early in the morning." l had a
smoke and went to bed. This man was
providing around n little longer, and
finally went to bed. Before daylight
next morning be was up, got breakfast,
and had me get up and take the horse
and go to the spring for more water,
also some articles left there the day
before. When / got to the springs
went and got two Indian boys to assist
me in packing the horse; also they
came to camp with me and stayed that
afternoon; did not know what might
occur. Got back to camp about noon !;
found this man to work in the mine;
worked short time; then we both
came back for dinner. After dinner
went to work as usual; he asked me if
| had seen Sharp, or heard anything
about him; told him | had not. Things
passed on as usual until Sunday, when
Egbert came there. This man said to
Fgbert that he was short one hand; he
wanted to know why. He said Sharp
had gone off, and he didn't know
where he went That day Sunday 1
first put on these boots. On Monday
we went to Wright's mine, and in
going there this man went round
about way for the purpose of going
through steep canyon; l mistrusted
that everything was not right in
coming that way; he wanted me fol-
low him through that canyon; 1 let
him go his way on one side, and |
took around on the other; | was fully
i'm messed in NV mimi thnt he infend-