Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-10

the Sherif's office in his delivery
wagon with some children in it, and
said he wanted to give himself up,
as he had just killed a man out at the
Mountain Boy mine. He gave me
these weapons. pistol and knife pro-
duced.) The pistol, he stated,
McSloy had and tried to use on him.
The knife, he said, was the one he
(Manheim) done the cutting with. He
told me to some extent how it
was done; he said he drove up TO
the mine and found McSloy there
with his PISTOL drawn; he begged Nc
Sloy not to shoot as there were chill
dren in the wagon; he said wait until
l get down and out of the wagon and
talk it over; McSloy called him a
%robbing jew son of b-h," and said
he was there 10 get even with him.
He held the boy in front of him until
he got his knife out of his vest; they
grappled together, McSloy trying to
use his pistol, while he (Manheim)
was defending himself with his knife.
When MaDbeim came 10 the Sheriff's
office he was covered with hood. BY
the looks of the ground where the
fight took place ! should judge that
the scuff1e continued for 80 feet down
the hill from the point where / found
a hat lying to where the body lay.
There we're no papers or other evil
dence of his identity found on Nc.
Sioy's body. l don't think either fell
during the scuff1e until McSloy fell
dying; l think the blood spouted out
OF McSloy's neck over Mannheim; l
should judge that they were close to-
getier during the continuance OF the
tight; there was blood on Manheim's
shoulder and back, as il McSloy had
had his arm around Manheim's neck
while bleeding.
DR.. A. G. Bishop made the following
statement: 1 visited the ground with
Sheriff Sias and found the body as de-
scribed by the witnesses. I found
nine cuts. IN on the right arm, five
in the head and neck, and three on the
body. The carotid artery was severed.
Several of the wounds were of them
selves sufficient to cause death. The
wounds could have been made with
the men struggling breast to breast.
Thomas McGOvern sworn, and testi-
fed Is follows: / attend %Sweeney's
stable; ! know McS!oy; he was at
S~weeney's stable at IL o'clock A. Nj.
to-day, and got u horse to 90 up on the
Hill for an hour; the horse was
brought back by MIR. Mullisa an at 8
O'Clock P. NJ; McSloy made use OF no
threats in regard to any one.
STATE OF NEVADA, Town AND
COUNTY OF EUREKA.
Bafore A. c. Bishop, ex-Olficio Cor
oner:
In the matter of the inquisition upon
the body of John McSloy, deceased,
We, the undersigned, the jury sum-
moned to appear before A. G. Bishop,
ex-offieio Coroner OF the county of Eu-
reka, at Eureka, Nevada, on the 9th
of June, A. d. 1877, to inquire into the
cause OF the death of James McSlOy,
having been duly sworn according to
law, and having made such inquisi-
ton after inspecting the body and
hearing the testimony adduced, upon
that We find the deceased was
named James McSloy ; that he was
a native of county Tyrone, Ireland,
aged about 80 years, and that he came
TO his death on the 9th day OF June,
A. D. 1877. by wounds inflicted by a
knife in the hands of David Mannheim,
in the neighborhood of the Kentuck
and Mountain Boy mines, in the
Township of Eureka, county and
State aforesaid; and that said wounds
were inflicted by said Mannheim in
unsuitable self dsfeuse. Witness u
hands at Eureka aforesaid, this 9th
day of June, 1877.
Signed: Selden Hetzel, Foreman;
J. j. Work, j. b. Ayers, j. c. Lock-
wood, d. Rosenberg, r. Steler.
Mr.. Mannheim is still in the custody
of the Sheriff. He will probably have
an examination before Justice Cromer
to morrow, when it is likely that he
will be set at liberty, the testimony
going to show that, as the jury say, he
acted in justifiable self-defense.