Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-26
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THE PISTOL AGAIN.
James Harrington Gets HIS Fifth
Mamie shoots John Sullivan,
Putting Four Bullets into His
Body and Causing Instant
Deash-A Cold Blooded Affair.
From the Virginia Enterprise, 23d.1
Yesterday afternoon about 4:30
o'clock James Harrington shot and
instantly killed John Sullivan on
South G street, in front of the New
York Bakery. According to what is
said of the shooting by eye witnesses,
it was q most uncalled. for and cold
blOoded affair. Persons who were on
the street and witnessed the shooting
say that Sullivan was a good deal in
tox:cated, and in a maudlin way was
coaxing and pulling at Harrington TO
get him to go down the street with
him to get q drink or something of the
kind. Harrington seemed in a bad
humor, and told Sullivan to let him
alone, saying: "You will tear my
coat" etc. Sullivan still insisted, pull
ing and hauling in a drunken way,
when Harrington struck him with his
fist and then instantly drew his pistol
and, placing it at S%ullivan's breast.
fired. Both men fell upon the side
walk, Sullivan falling upon or across
Harrington, Harrington still cODtin-
ued to use his pistol, firing rapidly as
he lay upon the walk. He fired four
shots, when he got up, put his pistol
into his pocket and started southwark
along G street. There was no police
man in the neighborhood, but officer
Morrow, special at Cowan Il
Sliter's saloon, No. 66, soon came
up aud followed after and arrest
ed Harrington. Sullivan received
two balls through the heart, hardly an
inch apart, and one nearly in the GEN.
ter of the breast and a fourth through
the right hip. 1t is thought that the
first shot entered his heart and that he
was dead when he struck the sidewalk.
Sullivan was unarmed and made no
demonstration against Harrington
further than to annoy him by pulling
at him. The shooting was so sudden
and seemed so uncalled for that all who
witnessed it were for a time bewildered
and stupefied, being hardly able to be-
lieve the evidence of their W senses;
therefore, when Harrington got up and
moved away no n made a move to
stop him. Harrington has for time
been employed as a Waterman at the
Consolidated Virginia pan mill and
is a miner who has worked at
the Consolidated Virginia mine. 1t is
said that the two men were great
until about twO weeks ago,
when they had a quarrel and had not
since been on good terms.
Harrington vas lodged in the Coun-
ty Jail, but it being seen toward
ing that the people were likely to make
raid on the jail and string the muir.
ierer up. Sheriff Kelly got him away,
md, putting him aboard of a train,
oOk him to Carson. Had he been al
owed to remain in this city "601"
would undoubtedly have had a moose
bout his neck before midnight.
Harrington has a bad record. He
killed q man in Montana. one in Cot
,onwood, Utah, and in Phoebe killed
John Lynch and wounded three other
men, one OF whom died within a week
Or two after being shot. A man who
to know something of Harring-
history, says that he also killed
TWO men in Arizona, but this is prob
ably q mistake. The pistol used by
yesterday was a French
with six chambers and car
rying a large slug ball.