The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-09-04
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
LOVE ON THE CARS.


The Daughter Follows the
Lover.
The passengers on the e,nigrant train
which arrived here shortly after dark
last evening, were in fearful state of
excitement. The moment the cars
stopped there were loud calls for doe
tor aud muttered threats of hanging.
II seemed as if the ubiquitous COL was
ON board the train, the forward cars OF
which were alive with excited men and
women rushing wildly to and fro.
Constable Pryor who had been up to
3olconda, was aboard the train, aud
arrested one of the passengers who
shot aud seriously il not fatally
wounded fellow passenger. The officer
bandcuffed his prisoner, at whose side
chung a rather good looking young girl,
apparently sixteen or seventeen years
of ace. as he walked through town to
the Office of the Justice of the Peace
In the forward emigrant car sat
middle aged man. whose shirt was
covered with blood; with bis wife and
two children, one a boy aged ~ or
II years, the other girl few years
Younger. surrounded by an excited
crowd OF emigran,s, who were loud in
/. IF H.
had won a daughters affections aud
wounded her father for attempting to
protect her. The Railroad Agent. w.
II. Welch, was called to the scene, and
Immediately dispatched a messenger for
DR.. Hanson. Meantime the wounded
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 shooting
affair and his connection withfthe man
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 pbotogra ply.
Some two or three months ago n man
by the name OF w. L. Worthington,
from New Albany, Indiana. whore he
has a wife and three children, entered |
into partnership with him, he being an
artist. They closed out thsir business |
aud started for California. On the |
road he noticed that Worthington was |
very familiar with his danghter-a girl |
10 her teens-and so far east as Green
River, he talked with him abont it and /
told him TO let the girl alone. This had |
10 effect whatever, and the girl WAS
completely osptivated by Worthington.
who threatened to blow him through |
II he said a word before the people |
about it. Yesterday some words passed |
between them on the subject. and last
evening about dark. shortly after the
train left Tule, six miles east of here, |
Worthington and the girl We're sitting
out On IA coal car in front of the emf
grant car in which they travelled. He |
asked the girl to come into the car. but
she paid no attention to what he said.
tic then determined 10 assume fathers
prerogation aud get the girl away from
Wurthington. he took his gun and
went out on the coal ear, some hot words
ensued aud he fired, Worthington also
fired and two shots from his pistol hit
him. DIR. Hanson examined the wounds
and found that one of the bullets
entered his breast near the right nipple
and lodged in the muscles of the back;
the other entered the abdomen on the
left side near the lower rib. The for
mer was extracted through an incision
made in the back, tho other the doctor
was unable to find by probing. and it
yet remains in his body, and may have
penetrated the intestines, in which
event it woull be- almost certain to
prove fatal.
When the officers informed the pris-
oner that he would have to be locked
up. the girl begged to be permitted to
remain with hun. They were taken
to the Central Hotel. where they re-
ma |