Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-20
VIRGINIA CITY, Jan. 10.


To-day Peter Larkin paid upon the
gallows in this city the penalty of the
which he committed on the 4th
day of August 1875, in numbering
Daniel Corcoran at the residence of the
latter on South G. street. The circum
stances of the murder are we'll known
and have been so thoroughly discussed
in this community that a mere briet
outline of them is all that is necessary
now. Corcoran was shot by Lark in
about six o'clock on the morning of
the 4th of August, 1915. Larkin and a
woman name Nellie Sayers owned
saloons adjoining each other on the
Barbary Coast, numbered respectively
1876 and 1867 South G street. Al the
sides of the houses were windows
which looked into each other across an
allev three or foul feet wide. Corcoran
was in bed with Nellie Sayers just be-
fore the shooting occurred, aud, ac-
cOrding to the evidence at the trial, Lar
kin must have crawled through his
own window and into the window op-
posite it. The noise of his entrance
aroused Corcoran, who, seeing Larkln,
pursued him with a boot. Larkln
Leaped Through n window
By which he had entered and imnedi-
ately after wards a shot was fired from
the alley, the ball passing through the
window and inflicting a fatal wound in
the abdomen of Corcoran, who was
standing then near The door or his
room and nearly opposite the window
through which the shot came. Nellie
Sayers had formerly lived with Larkin.
and jealousy was supposed to be the
incentive to the act. Larkin was al
once arrested and COrcoran died the
next day. At the inquest the testi
mony was very conflicting, and people
began to manifest an excited intere t
in the affair. Early this morning, al
10 O'Clock, a crowd began To collect On
the street in the vicinity of the jail.
At 1890 o'clock a man rushed down
street with a dispatch for Sheriff Kelly.
He was, of course, noticed by every
body and it flew from niOuth to mouth
that the condemned man had been re-
prieved. This occa>iOned a still
stronger curiosity to visit the vicinity
Vi tibe Jhilt anu nutIuiCuS nc
man down the street. The dispatch
was AS follows, and in answer to n
which had been sent last night by
friends:
"Myself and the Board of Pardons
car see no reason for clemencv.'
[Signed1 KITrRELL,
Attorney General"
This destroyed the last hope, and the
Sheriff quietly pocketed the dispatch.
The excitement aboIttha Jail increased
as the crowd til 'kened, and the police
were obliged To clear a passage along
the walk. Men collected On every
available spot, and the balconies above
the place were crowded. Here, f r
half an hour. the crowd amused them
selves snow balling those upon the bal
comics, and al evory good hit a roar OF
laughter would rise which could be-
heard inside the Jail. At ii AS a closed
carriage drove up, the driver plowini
his way through the crowd, which
could only with difficulty be induced
to give way. At ~ minutes to II O'Clock
Larkin babe
G0Oa.bye to His Friends,
And as he did so the tears rolled down
his cheeks. lie then went forth with
Father Manogue, holding a crucitix in
his hands. He was perfectly cool.
The police had formed a lane from the
door to the carriage, aud behind, on
each side, was a mass OF heads. Heavy
banks of snow were piled Oh the right
and left, and upon each the crowd
clustered. When the two walked
down tine lane; the police could hardly
EnnsN I've line intact AZ, N rnAt "uG thA
anxiety to get closer. Larkin entered
the hack, followed by his spiritual adj
wiser, and then the Sheriff getting in
the door was closed. Larkin looked
u Of the window and smiled as he
was driven off. At 8 minutes to II the
Deputy Sheriff pushed the drop up
into place with a spade, and there was
nothing to do but to wait. The waiting
was not long, as almost upon the point
of II o'clock = rye movement
among the persons a the door beto-
kened the approach Of the condemned
man aud then he entered and APP
preached the thirteen steps of the c
fold. Father Manogue, upon his lett
hand, supported him with bis right
arm, more apparently from kindness
aud sympathy than from need, tor
Larkin walked firmly and assembled
the steps with a light springing step.
He was dressed in a neat suit OF new
or almost new black broadcloth, with
white shirt, black bow neck-tie and
low shoes with white stockings. In
his hands he carried q black crucifx
with the figure of the Savior and the
inscription owe the head in gold. His
face, As he entered the Enclosure,
showed nervousness, but no trace of
trepidatiOn, his color being higherthan
when in jail, where, in fact, his face was
generally pallid, and the color never
faded from the time he set his foot on
the scatfold till the time
The Hideous Black Cap
Was pulled over his head. He seemed
a little excited; that was all. When
he arrived upon the scaffold he shook
hands with Sheriff Kelly and Deputy
Sheritfs Tom Kelly and Atkinson,
and then sat down in one of the two
canebottom arm-chairs that were
there, Father Manogue seating himself
on his right hand in the order named.
Mr.. Atkinson then produced the death
% arrapt and procaadad IN raad n. II