Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-10-10

They Determine That Deceased
Came 20 His Death from Gun.
shot Wounds Received 81 shs
Hands OF Omcer william Davis
"A Resume OF Last Evesing.s
Testimony.
The testimony In the case OF the death
Of Louis Ash was concluded before the
Coroner's jury In Virginia City last cvsn-
Ing. Tho testimony Of Officer Davis was
not taken. nor was the dying statement Of
Ash given to the Jury. Al tho case will
necessarily go before the Grand jury.
II was not thought desirable TO have these
matters discussed beforehand.
Henry Baker and Edward Walsh gave
some mcagre particulars. the substance Of
which has already been published In these
columns. John N. Martin Of Gold Hill
was the next witness. lie said I knew
deceased by sight was present at the
shooting ; Il was between 2 and 5 o'clock
Monday morning II occurred In . hall
vay between houses 8 and 81. on D street,
and In the rooms Of 81 ; I was first OF.
tracted by the noise over there; heard
Davis say that these s-ns Of b--hes OF
plmps were defying the law he says,
"We'll hang them = he says, "N that
man comes 10 this door again I'll take
him % lust Is he said that, or immedia-
tely after no said II. this young Ash ap-
pesred and opened the door he had his
boots of; had his undershirt and pants
on ; a. soon as Davis saw him he ran ct
him, saying, "You s--n Of . b-h. I've
had enough Of this !" Ash stepped back
three or four steps In the hall, 20 II to
shut the door I; at that time. and when he
was reaching for the door. three shots
went off, should say throe shots |; they
were two or three feot apart at the time Of
these shots ; / did not get directly In front
OF the hall after these three shots /; thought
the balls might DO coming straight out ;
the next two shots I heard were In the
house 5h ; one appeared TO DO In the back
part-tho last shot; Immediately after
the last shot "A minute after - Davis
came out with . six.shooter In his
hand came out On the sidewalk; i
was looking at Davis when he came out
and I did not see hsw the boy got out ; he
must have come about the same time that
Davis did; by the boy, mean Ash-the
boy that was shot Ash came out imme-
diately behind Davis /; saw Ash have no
weapons-nono whatever; did not hear
him speak whom at the door. before the
shooting commenced saw Davis run TO
the boy and heard the three shots between
them ; saw Davis como out with the pistol
after tho two shots In the o ! was
across the street. Just out OF line Of the
hall T; saw Skinner holding Q girl on the
sidewalk and saw Davis hit him In the
head with something IL was . terrible
lick Skinner had not said . word Skin.
ner got up and ran. and that was tho last
I saw Of Davis; no went up town with
some ono ! don't know who IL was.
Chief Breen testified 10 having arrested
Davis and said Davis was not drunk 81 the
time. He took Davis pistol, which had
four shots out OF II. He had never seen
Davis drunk. Davis told Chief Drcen that
lie acted In self defense.
Officer Farnsworth heard . shooting
and ran 10 the house. He testified /: There
was ono shot fred after I got on to the
sidewalk and was going into tho door ;
heard some one In the hallway, but could
not SEQ who IL was I went Into the back
room and there were Davis and deceased
think the last shot was fred In this back
room /; saw no n else there; II was dark
there the middle room was lighted, and
there was considerable powder smoke
there; Davis came out and Ash fol.
lowed Davis had his gun In his hand ; |
did not sec Ash have any l asked
Davis II no was shot and he said
no Louis Ash came out and said. "I Am
shot, Davis walked but Of the door ahead
Of Louis and mo ; I got hold Of Louis
arm and walked out 10 the sidewalk with
him ; laid him down on the sidewalk; the
first thing no called for was water . big
crowd began TO gather I sent Oficer Des-
mond for 9 doctor; while he was gone We
carried Ash. from the sidewalk into the
middle room ; when ! went In Davis was
standing by tho door out OF the bedroom
into tho back room saw blood on the arm
Of deceased. also on the front Of his shirt;
Davis did not appear drunk; I drank once
AMI Davis took . cigar heard no shots
before those mentioned this was my beat
and I had not been away any further than
10 the corner Of Taylor street; did not ex-
anime Louis clothes-those lie had taken
OF; saw no weapon on him |; he had pants
and undershirt on when ! laid him on the
sidewalk ; there was . great crowd around
Louis while on the sidewalk, and . pistol
might have been taken from him ~ he lay
there /; did not search any Of tho rooms for
Q pistol whilo In there.
q. A. ShAney said he saw deceased stand.
ing at the window before the shooting with
q stick In his hand. Previous to that Ash
was In the Pioneer saloon threatening
everybody and wanting 10 lick somebody. |
Davis did not appear drunk. BhAney |
heard four shots and was not certain
whether or moi he heard Ave.
Officer Desmond testified 10 abusive
language having boon used by Ash pre-
vious 10 tho shooting. His testimony was
a. follows: took Ash homo 10 ~ u
street. Subsequently, he raised the win.
dow and said. You s-ns Of b-hes I An
In my own house 4" aftsr that ]
heard the shooting and ran up
but did not 80 inside do
not know how many shots we're fired; did
not know who was In there at tho time ;
subsequently FArnswortlr and Davis came
out; then Ash camo out and said he was
shot; Farnsworth then sent me for . doc
tor; Davis did not sppear TO DO drunk
have seen him under tho influence OF
liquor only once since he has been on the
force II was Thursday or Friday morning
about 3 O'Clock; he then won't home; did
see him take . drink that night; saw
him take two cigars; did not search do
ceased TO SEQ u he had o weapon ; do not
men when I take them home. only
when arrested and taken 10 tho station
he might have had . weapon on
him and I not have known IT,.