Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-05
THE HOLLAND GORMAN SHOOTING
MATCH.

The Piochd Record of Saturday contains
the following good-natured account of the
shooting ARRAY between Pat Holland and Geo,
T. German. Says the Record:
A shooting scrape occurred here on the
% ult. in which vast amount of poor marks
mnaship was displayed. In the issue of the
Record of the above date was an article IN
answer to letter which appeared in the Vir-
GINA Enterprise, and claimed by that paper
to have been written by their travelling cor
respondent" in which that individual took
occasion to give the Record shot. This
would-be correspondent, Pat Holland, took
the article as referring to himself. Holland
laid the blame of the production Of the article
upon Geo. T. German, local of this paper
Mr.. German and one of the proprietors OF
the Record left Phoebe about l P. NJ. on Sat
urday last to take ride to BulliQnville, and
shortly after their departure Holland made
his appearance on the street and put up a
poster, both obscene and untruthful, in rela-
ton to German, also one of the proprietors,
and with drawn pistol, paraded in front of it,
wanting to see some one attempt to tear it
down. About o'clock in the evening Hol-
land took down the poster of his own accord.
German returned to town about half past
o'clock in the evening, and was informed
about what had transpired during his absence.
He then left this office and went down Main
street, and was shortly afterward followed by
one of the proprietors, who met him at the
corner of Main and Meadow Valley streets,
and on coming up Main street, saw Holland
leaning against the lamb of the door of the Ell
Dorado saloon Holland, on seeing him,
drew out his revolver, and when he was
within eight feet of him, shot off the pistol,
the ball striking about six feet from the
shooter German thereupon drew his revol
yer and shot at Holland, who lodged behind
the door. Holland then commenced shooting
from behind the door, when German took
position by the jamb and began to shoot at
his antagonist through the crack of the door,
in which position several shots were exchanged
by both parties, when Holland made a break
for the back door, pursued by German, who
gave him parting shot as he was passing the
back entrance, but the ball struck wide of its
mark, which goes to prove that German will
not be able to be a-member of the American
team to contest for the Centennial medal at
the next international shooting match which is
to take place at Creedmoer. During the shoot
ing Holland was struck by ball in the side,
intiictipg slight wound. Erysipelas super
vened on account of his wound, and an ex-
animation that was to have been held before
Justice Allen on Monday was postponed until
Thursday. On Thursday German appeared
in court and gave bonds for his appearance
whenever called upon, and upon Hollands
doctor appearing and stating to the court that
his patient hardly able to appear then,
Hollands case was continued until Tuesday,
the 4th instant
Ona of the proprietors of this concern, the
author of the article which caused the trouble,
and who was standing about seven feet from
the parties at the time the shooting was
going on, was alSo arrested and placed under
bonds, as several parties say they saw him
shoot twice, while others say he did not shoot;
put, however, we will leave this little differ
ence of opinion between those parties to be
settled between themselves, sincerely hoping
hat the best man may win.