Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-09-06

stage, on the nigh side; / heard anoth-
err SHOT, and Brown says, They have
got me in the calf of the leg!" the
shot appeared to come from the rear of
the coach, or from a barricade from the
corner of the barn: / could see them;
they were both masked; the deceased
fired the first shot; there was a good
light from the stage lamps; they had
candles put up in the stable to shine
out on the stage; after Brown went
around the cprIRr of the stable To look
for the robbers, Blair was talking
to- the deceased as he laid on The
ground. There was a man who rushed
around IN the right hand of the stage
past the team, and as he went by Blair
he shot at him. Blair wheeled around
and shot at the robber. by that time
the man VAS so far of that | don't
think he touched him. Just then |
heard somebody in the stable yelling,
''Come in here; for Gods sake cut me
loose" i turned and said, ''Soda. cut
Bill loose" Soda did not respond to
the call. Then l said, professor Price.
| wish you would go in ard u that
fellow loose.o In a minute or two out
came Hood and Tingley. l asked
Tingley If he was in the row. lie said,
Eyes. they tied me the same as they
did Hood" Tingley and Hood SAID
that the robbers told them their bust
ness, asking how many messengers
came on the stage. They told them
sometimes two and sometimes three,
hoping to intimidate them. The de-
ceased told them he had exchanged
shots with Blair before. He unsid-
died Mr.. Tingley's horse and turned
him loose; also took the harness of the
stage horses, and said they would turn
them loose after they had gone
through the box. If anybody left that
station that night they done SO under
penalty OF death. When he, the de-
ceased, who Mas spokesman, first
came in, he pointed a shotgun at
Hood, and said q" we will run this
awhile ourselves" After the fight we
carried the deceased into the house
and took as good care of him as we
could, and tried to have him tell who
the other parties were, which he ut
terly refused to do, but said " II they
had stood in with Inc we would have
got away with it," Along toward
morning he said " there were beside
himself, but they are forty miles away
by this time" We found two horses
tracks the mex morning where they
had been tied To the Old railroad STA
BILE. When asked TO tell who was
with him, said: mo; | have had that
played on me before. and IL did not
help me out" About IL o'clock A. NJ
we started for Eureka. We got to
Pages ranch about a quarter past 3,
and the highwayman died about 10
minutes after We got there. We were
going To leave him there, as he was
suffering so much, and have a physi-
elan go and see him. He was asked
to tell his companions names, and he
said he would II they would give him
time. lie said this to Blair, Brown,
Page and others. lie knew be va
dying. They asked him his own
name; he gurgled out ANDREW
Davidson" as near as they could I'M
derstand. Those were the last words
he ever spoke. As he was dead we
concluded to bring him to Eureka
and to the Coroner. lie told Haskell
that he came from Typo.
The jury returned a verdict that the
deceased's name va A. j. Davis; that
he came to his death by a gunshot
wound at the hands of James Brown,
and that the killing was justifi able.