Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-26
THE TRAGEDY At ruscARoRA!
A Desperate Fight at Midnight !
BOTH OF THE COMBATANTS
KILLED.



The SENTINEL published yesterday,
from the Reuiesc, an account of what
appeared To be a most foul murder,
near Tuscarora. The Revie,c of the
oath instant has the true version of the
affair, showing the desperate struggle
at midnight between two men. which
I finally terminated in the death of both.
That journal says:
Since the report published yesterday
regarding the murder at Jose & Co.'s
woodrsnch, many new developments
have been made, which place the affair
in quite a different light, and make it
the bloodiest fight on record in the
State of Nevada. Upon the arrival of
Mr.. Jose with the news CT the murder
of g. F. Redell, Deputy Sheriff G.. NJ.
Woodwork went over to the camp,
and found things quite different from
what he expected.
w. Z. Vanblxricom, Mr.. Jose's
partner, had visited the spot imme-
diately upon being advised by Jose OF
the tragedy, and found one man dead
anu dDOttlct ItDTthhy "outioot, ih6
latter being Andreas Willie, the sup
posed murderer of Redell. Vanblari-
com passed by where the lead
man was lying. aud entered the hut
from which he heard groans to pro-
coed, and there found Willie IN almost
a dying condition, but after being
given water, he revived, and made the
following
DYING STATEMENT,
Remarking that he did not think he
would live an hour longer.
"WooD CAMP, Oct. %, 1877.
He came home about II or l o'clock
last night. He always wakes every
body up. He said he wanted to settle
with me. / told him to wait until the
morning. He said: go to He'll, you
Dutch son of a BIB; we will settle
now!" We fought for about AN hour
before any shooting commenced. /
came owe here and got the rifle, and
took the cartridge out of 1t, for fear
that he would kill me with it.. lie said
he would settle with Inc. He thought
he would swindle ME out OF what he
owed me-, and that was about 81 900
that he owed me. Redsll fired one
shot; then / hot one. My name is
Andreas Willie. My age is Al years.
l was born in Ssxebury, Germany"
This statement was taken down by
Mr.. Nanblaricom, in the presence OF
Mr.. Fuel, Henry AFFORD and Fred.
Bronson, after which it was read to
Willie, who pronounced 1t correct, and
put his hand ON the pencil while his
name was beingsigned to it.
FULLER DETAILS.
Deputy Sheriff Woodwork visited
the camp, and yesterday gave the fol-
lowing testimony at the Coroner's in
quest:
/ visited the wood packers camp,
about Is miles from Tuscarora, nearly
due east, where deceased came to his
death: arrived there about $50 o'clock
p. M. Monday. I'D instant; found Red.
ell dead, and a German named An
dreas Willie, | think, MORALLY wound
ed, who gave me the following state
ment of the difficulty between himself
aud the deceased /: "Redell came
home last night about midnight, and
said to me. Get up, and come out
here; l want to settle with you.' Think
he said, 'Godd-n you, come out here;
/ want to settle with you.' l got up
and came out of my tent, and
we fought for about an hour. /
thought that ended it, but Fred. went
to his tent. got his pistol and came back
again; told Inc to come on and we
would settle that thing right here. My
pistol had but one load in it. l ricked
it up and stepped out of the tent. and
Fred. shot me right away. l caught
his pistol with my hand, and We had a
scuffle around there. l shot at him
over my shoulder, and he said to me.
You son of a b-h. I'll murder YOU
l struck him over the head with my
pistol, and knocked him down into the
fire place. l then thought l could get
hold of the ak before he could get up
and shoot me. l let go of him; got
| the AK. and killed him with it. / don't
know how many times l struck him
with the Ak, may be two or three light
ticks. and m good n with both
hands. l went into my ten to lay
down, but the blankets were all mussed
up, so l crawled down here and got
into Fred's bed"
/ found Redell's dead body near the
entrance of what vas pointed out to
me as Wille's tent. He was lying
with his face down, his right arm bent
under his head and partly over his
face, with blood all over his head. His
feet were towards the entrance to the
tent. / found a pistol. which parties
there informed me belonged to Redell.
In the ire place, some three feet from
his dead body, and some fOur or five
feet on the other side of the body, there
was another pistol, which / was in
formed belonged to Willie. Wille's
pistol was empty. and very bloody.
Redell's pistol was al half cock, with
two chambers empty, and part Of the
ball of one chamber lodged against the
barrel as though both chambers had
went off at once, stopping the cylinder
from revolving. I examined the dead
body and found $3.50 in gold coin, one
IS gold note, and 81 Is in silver. Also
found some papers, among the resi-
some notes and receipts, and Q memo.
randum book. ! also found a bloody
revolver scabbard in front Of Redell's
tent.
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