Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-02

| At 10 o'clock yesterday morning Allen
| Bragg, book keeper of the State Prison, and
d, H. Pine, lieutenant Of the guards at the
State Prison, heard rafting at the gate
| which leads from the inner prison to the stone
j quarry and there found John Il. barley, alias
Rattlesnake Dick, who when the officers came
up, remarked:
sNThere's dead man out here and I've
killed him.
| The two meG were then lead to the north
west corner of the stone quarry and there
they found ChamberaiA lying on his face
with blood streaming cepiously from wounds
on his head He was breathing bat still an-
conscious and was brought inside the prison
On Z mattress and physician sent for.
DEATH OF CHAMBERLAIN.
An examinations showed five wounds on his
head and face, evidently made with the sharp
point OF pick. On the left side OF his head
the skull was laid bare and a blow had taken
away a portion Of the skull There also
weund on the tsp of the head and three
bruises on his forehead. At one time it was
thought that he would regain sufficient CON
seriousness to speak. His lips moved but he
was unable to articulate, and at l ociock in
the afternoon he died.
DARLEYs STATEMENT.
When barley was Intercepted on the sub
jet of the killing he talked but little, bn.
acknowledged that he struck the blows. lie
finally made the following statement:
Il have been expecting trouble with Bill
for long time. A few days ago he said had
been the means of getting him here and he
would get even He acted very strangely and
| thought he was looking for row. This
merning We had some words aud finally ! hit
to say, anyhsw"
ANIICEDENTS OF THE FARTIEs
Both men were sent to the State Prison
from Storey county FIVE years ago, the pair
having been convicted Of stealing a watch and
$50 from Col. Stone the attorney. They were
sentenced for ten years each by Judge
Rising, and since that time Cham berlain has
borne grudge against barley, Claiming that
he got him mixed up in the affair. barley has I,
for some years been known as Rattlesnake |
Dick, a name which he gave himself, and is
considered a hard and dangerous character.
the INQUEST.
In the afternoon Coroner Foster held an !
inquest GU Chamberlain Rattlesnake Dick
made the following statement:
Il was hewing stone in the remote corner
If the yard when Chamberlain refused to do
IS told him. | was appointed as a sort of
BOSS and was held responsible for the work
told him to do as | said, but he made some
back talk and said he wouldn't. | stopped
Town to take up pick when | saw him raise
lis pick to strike me. | raised my hand and
aught the point of the pick here. The wit
less showed the Jurors his right hand which
vas badly gashed at the base Of the thumb
md also showed where the point of the pick
lad penetrated his clothes. We struggled
or the possession OF the pick for some time,
hen he suddenly let 20 the pick and grabbed |
p hammer. Just before he let go | had !
ashed him over the eye with it and the blood
as streaming from his face When he raised
he hammer | hit him three or four times Oil
ae head pretty quick as | did not have time {
II a full swing. At the fourth blow he fell .
nd | came in and reported. We were work t
g by our selves at point about four hun 6
red feet from the gate" r
THE VERDICT /
The jury found that William Chamberlain a
.me to his death from blows received from a t
ck held by Richard Darling, alias Rattle (
lake Dick {
DARLINGs ANTIcERBNTs. v
Darling soldier in the Mexican war and
rived in Z. 3. Zabriskie's company After
e war he roamed about over the coast and
said to have been married more times than
" man in the United States. One of his
ives was the daughter of Lee, the motor.
us Mormon murderer. Dick was 40 years :,
and his victim So. The term Dick was
rving was his second for robbery
DEMANDING HIS RIGHTS - Yesterday morn TT