Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-08
A sAGE3RUsH MYSTERY.

OdIA~" ILODDcu duU ABOUT u
be Buried Alive--A Crooked
Story of How It Happened
Was It a Plan to Rob the
Stage?
During the afternoon of Wednesday
last, the driver Of a team, while pass.
ing along the stage road between sum
nit Station and Garden Pass, had his
attention attracted to the cries for help,
coming from the sagebrush near the
road, and Fastening to the spot, found
a man lying on the ground, having
been shot and badly wounded. The
wounded man is named Timothy,
and was a short time since employed
as a coach-washer for the stage COM
pany at Alpha. He was conveyed to
the house at Summit Station, and
there gave the following ccount of
his being shot. TO say the least, his
narrative Of the affair is a
Very Crooked story,
And seemingly improbable. He says:
On quitting work 1t Alpha, he pro.
ceeded to Eureka. While here, he
spent his time in drinking and gam.
bli g, but finally lie made a success
fui play against the tiger" and won
about a hundred dollars. With this
money he started lale on Tuesday
night to return to Alpha-in what
manner he travelled was not stated.
but presumably on horseback. While
on the road he became aware that
ON persons was following him
two gamblers-whom he says were
Watching him while he was in town
and at the gambling rooms. When
about a mile past Garden Pass, the
men overlook him, shot him i'm the
right shoulder and robbed him of
his money. So far. the story seems
straight enough, but he continues:
The two men
Kept Him n Prisoner
During the entire night. The next
day Thursday they determined to
bury him alive, and were digging a
grave when the fast freight wagon
came i'm sight, and both men fled,
leaving Timothy on the ground.
Faint with the loss of blood, he was
unable TO call tn the driver OF the
fast freight, and it passed him on it,
way to Eureka. file says the stage
passed on the road just about the time
ne was ~ OF. Later, in the afternoon
of the same day, he succeeded i'm at
tracing the attention Of a man driving
"A team, aud was taken. as before
stated, 10 the Summit Station, where
he now lies. DR.. Dobrenz, a passen-
ger on Thursdays stage to Alpha, |
stopped AT the station aud examined
the wound of the man, but was u
bile 10 extract the bullet, having no
surgical Instruments with him, and
the wound was dressed as well ~
possible.
Another Theory.
And one plausible enough in its ma
ture to show that Timothy had reason
to relate such an improbable narrative !
~ he did, in the endeavor to east
aside any suspicion which the circum-
stances in which he was found might
create, is thus explained: Tie stage
which left Eureka on Tuesday last, |
beside containing a number of pas>en- |
gers, had on board Sl5,000 in coin and |
about S24 900 in silver bullion, aud.
with the possible hope of securing the
whole or a portion of this treasure, the
two men who followed Timothy, and
he himself, might have had the inten
ton of securing The treasure. Their
appearance on the road at that hour of
The night strengthens such a belief, and
the place where the wounded man
was found was n desirable portion OF
the route to stop the stage and secure
the booty. The shooting OF Timothy |
leads To- superstition that, while wait
ing for the stage, a quarrel arose be-
tween the three men, resulting I'm the
abandonment OF their intention To stop |
the stage. The statement that the two
men, after shooting and robbing Tim
othy, prepared a grave and were
about
To EntOmb Him Alive.
But for the opportune arrival of the
fast freight, seems incredible. Profess
sional foot-pads, highwaymen, and
their ilk, do not, as a general thing,
linger in the company CT their victim
for twenty-tour hours planning how tn
become rid of him. or carry with
them implements with with which to
dig a grave. Neither is il to be I've
ileNeu INA Ilitolny snot nitiiseiI.
Some one else did that. Two men.
bent on rObbing him of the small
amount of money he had in bis pos
session, would not follow him twenty
four miles when they could do the
work on the outskirts OF town. or q
the time of night which Timothy says
he left, even III the streets. His story |
throughout of how he became shot Is |
very improbable, and the theory thai
he, in connection with the other two
men, was on the road for the purpose
of ''going for the box" seems the most
probable. Either their design were
frustrated by "A lack o~fcourage on thei
part when the time came, or a disa-
greement took place, resulting In the
shooting of Timothy. AT last accounts
Timothy was at the Summit Station;
M medical assistance, save that ten
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