Dodge City times., 1877-09-08

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Examiner and Chronicle.
A Melon.HOoking Expedition and Its
Tragic Ending.
About o'clock yesterday morning,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, Willie
Carney, Eddie Coyne and Harvey Coyne,
none of whom were thirteen years of
of age, started from their house on the
commons south of Newport for ramble
and in search of boyish adventure.
Coyne's parents had formerly resided
about mile and q half southeast of the
city, on the Water-wOrks Road, and
about half-past one in the afternoon they
brought up in the vicinity, in the water
melon patch on Lewis Thornton's farm.
Barney did not go into the patch, but
remained outside the fence, while his
little brother and Willie Carney went
into it to hook few melons with which
to regale themselves. Mr.. Thornton's
residence is not more than four hundred
feet from the watermelon patch, and the
movements of the boys were observed
by his hired hand, Henry Green, a tall,
strapping big fellow of 10 or 90, who
went into the house and took down a
dOuble-barreled shotgun and started
out in the direction of the melon patch.
Mrs. Thornton spoke to him as he was
going out of the door and told him not
to shoot at any body, or at least
she says she gave him that advice, but
he. disregarded her counsel, and
couple of minutes later she heard the
report of the weapon, and she ran out
to see if any one was hurt. As she ran
over to the melon patch she met Green
coming back with the gun in his hand,
and, on getting over the fence she found
the lad Barney Coyne stone dead, with
a terrible hole in the back of his head,
where the charge had entered it. Green
put the gun back in the house and start
ed for town, accompanied by Thorn
toms son, a boy of twelve. Meanwhile
the body of the murdered boy was per-
mitted to lie where he had been killed
until his brother and Willie Carney
came into Newport and told Barney's
father of the tragedy. The poor man,
who ekes out precarious living for
himself and family by shoveling coal out
of barges in the Licking, procured
wagon and went out and got the re-
mains and brought them to his humble
home. There DIR. Davis examined the
wound and found that twenty-three
heavy buckshot had penetrated the
skull, causing instantaneous death.
Several days ago it is said that Green
took down the same gun and tried to
fire it off but could not do so. "Luce"
Thornton told him to put the gun away
and not fool with it for it might go off.
Green replied, :" wouldn't be afraid to
give you that gun and let you try to fire
it off at me at ten feet" Thornton
thought differently and replied, "put it
away; the next time you take it down
you will be sure to kill some one with
it," He also cautioned his wife against
the gun. This is the Thorntons' story.
Green was formerly circus man, and
does not bear the best of character.
Our representative had talk with VIII
lie Carney, and he says that Barney had
not been in the melon patch at all, but
had charge of two Of the melons which
he had taken. When the boys saw
Green coming they all took to their heels
except Barney, who crouched down be-
bird bush or a little knoll of land.
Green advanced on him until he was
within eight or ten feet of the trembling
child, and then shot him down like
dog