Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-10
o q WHITE BEANS.
YESTERDAYS SHOOTING ARRAY.
Hugh Kelly Shot by Jimmy Ticket
in a Fracas on Ruby Hill.
circumstances of the Shooting.

iCouitiuS Ill tHo SuOOtiuS vi q LDifei
employed in the X X mine, named
Hugh Kelly. The following are the
particulars in brief:
Day before yesterday was ray day
for the miners in the X X mine, and
during the night many OF them were
having a good time in the various sa-
looms. The spree was kept up during
most of the night and early yesterday
morning was by many renewed. At
about nine O'Clock yesterday morning
a poker game was started in Tommy
Smiths saloon, in which Kelly, Frank
Madron and two others took part.
After playing for some time, a dispute
arose between Madron and Kelly about
four beans, used in the game and rep
%resenting two and a half cents zach in
value. The quarrel over the beans re-
suited in high words being passed be-
tween the two men, and at the sugges
ton of Kelly the difficulty was to be
settled by a fist fight out in the street,
where they proceeded to. At this
juncture Jimmy Ticket, a miner EN-.
| pIOy6u Ill lIc EuI6hd SOIJSOEludUtu
mine, came along and spoke TO Madron
about the folly OF engaging in a street
fight with the man Kelly.
THIS INTERFERENCE BY TICKET
Was considered unwarranted by Kelly,
who proposed to give him a game. AS
to what followed there are several ver-
sions, but it appears that Kelly then
pulled a miners candlestick from his
pocket and challenged anybody to
fight, saying he vas not afraid of any
man, and would fight Ticket any way
he wished. The latter did not seem to
care much about letting a fight go by
default, and picking up a hammer
handle said he would fight Kelly, can-
dIestick and all. No blows We're ex-
charged, however, and both men
started off in the direction of Nick
Werry's saloon and lodging-house,
where they each slept. AS Kelly passed
Nick Very, who was standing in front
of his house, he was asked by him
| who he had been growing" with, but
received an unintelligible reply to the
inquiry, ard Kelly passed OH through
the saloon TO the stairs at the end OF
the building, which led to the sleeping
apartment of the house. Ticket fol.
lowed Kelly in and went up stairs,
having one hand in hIs Goa pocket.
Both men went up stairs, and a few
seconds afterwards the report of a pis-
tol vas heard, and a noise as II some
one had fallen heavily on the floor. A
rush was made up the stairs and Kelly
was found with a wound near the
wind pipe. He was taken 10 his room
and messengers were dispatched after
a physician and Father Monteverde,
the priest. DR.. A. q. Bishop soon ar
rived, and on examining the wound
found that the ball had entered the
body at the upper edge of the sternum,
cutting the esophagus and had lodged
somewhere in the muscles of the back.
The character of the. wound prevented
probing Tor the ball. DR.. Bishop con
Siders the wound a fatal one. Father
Monteverde, of st. Finian's Church,
| shortly after arrived, and the wounded
man regaining for a brief time a semi
conscious state, the rite of dissolution
vas administered.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING
Ticket went to his own on the
same floor, and changing his clothes,
came out and started down towards
town. A number of citizens shortly
after followed and overlook him half
way on the road. Ticket was called
upon to stop, and the men coming
up to him, one of them, named Tom
Flavin, asked him where he was going.
Ticket replied that he was going to
town to give himself up. He was then
informed that he must consider him.
| c,le,lnlnr arracf and thnu xyOnl6 ar
company him. He made no resist
ance, aud when the party arrived at
the Jail Ticket surrendered himself
to Sheriff Sias.
When the SENTINEL reporter arrived
at RUBY Hill, a disposition was ex-
hibited by some not to give any in
formation concerning the matter, but
after wards several eve witnesses made
statements of the causes leading to the
ARRAY which are embraced in the above
particulars. Yesterday afternoon we
visited the prisoner in the County Jail,
whom we found fast asleep in his cell.
Waking him. we stated the object of
our errand, and he cheerfully gave us
his version of the affray. The follow
ing is
JIMMY TICKEL's STATEMENT:
I had just como off shift from the
mine, took my breakfast and vent into
Matt. Kyle's and got a cigar. Then I
went into Smiths place and noticed
that Kelly and a man named Frank
Madron we're q%uarreling; they were
going out in the street to fight it out,
and l sail to Madron, "Look here,
don't have no trouble" Kelly then
said to me, do you want any of it2"
l told him no. He then said if l did,
to come along, he was prepared for me,
taking a miners candlestick out of his
pocket, brandishing il and saving ale
would fight me any way l wanted"
lie challenged me to fight him and
started toward Dick Werry's; l also
started FOR the same place tor the pur-
pose of going to bed, having a room
in that house. When l got to the foot
of the stairs l noticed Kelly at the hall
door with his candlestick in hand.
| told him l did not want any trouble,
and said, "Let us drop it. Kelly, l
want to go to bed" Kelly re-
Piled, "If you enter this door
/ will thrust this into you." exhibiting
the candlestick. AS l started to &c
into the hall he made a movement ia