Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-10-19
THE RENO SHOOTING.


. VIC AahC tIfc IOllOWiHS IIoiu III
J, Reno Gazette of yesterday:
Sam. E. Hilliard sworn-Was EN-
: ployed to watch the office and safe an,
everything in it. Went to the Office a
IL o'clock as 4 stakeholder. / held 2,
shares of stock. l was sitting in thu
front room on the table oil the righ
hand as you so in. Fowler, Moore
Scoville, Balch and others went into The
middle room. Mr.. Fowler came to the
door and said The meeting is called
to order; rush in men and do yeul
duty" He turned back into the roam
and | followed him. He took hold of
McMechan a minute later. He had a
pistol in hi. hand and was going across
the room. ! saw someone near the
door fire a shot into the southwest cor
ner, and perhaps two. McMechan stood
in the southwest corner. l saw him fire
shot. l saw Balch scuffiing with some
one in the northwest corner. Hehad a
chair striking someone. Saw Nc
| Mechan striking someone with his
pistol. I then went cut of the door
Saw Cogan in the outside room before
shot was fired. He was looking in
through the door. He had pistol in
his hand. Did not see him come into
the middle room. Before that he sat
at table in the outer room. When
Moore came in he got up and spoke
some words, beginning, "These men,"
Moore said, "Have you got their
time 20 Before that, when Cogan first
came in at the front door, he asked the
men if they had quit for dinner. They
said they wouldn't work any more till
they got their money. Cogan said, " If
had known that l wouldn't have
brought you down." He said to Muir
ply, "The last time 1 brought you
down you got drunk and made trouble"
Murphy said, al know l did" Cogan
SAID he would go out and try to find
Moore. He soon came back. Kendall
came in and man named McNulty |
stuck his head in the window and said |
to Kendall, "Nate, they want you to
have your men in front of the office at |
10 O'clock" Saw three pistols, Fowler's,
Cogan's and McMechan's. /
Cross-examined-Wa once engineer
on the locomotive; Mr. Balch discharged
me on the twelfth of September; was
hired at the instance of Mr.. Sunderland;
took charge of the Office on the order of
Wheeler, Sunderland and McMechan
about the fifteenth of September. after
the safe was opened 1 was not in the
Office much had not paid any money
for my stock; got it Of Mr.. Coffin he
said he made Inc present of it. (The
certificate was introduced in evidence.
1t was printed by Marshall Robinson,
Carson, and reads: $4,000 shares, 81
each Reno, Nevada, September 10th,
1881. Capital S6,0OO,O00; Nevada and
Oregon Company. Incorporated April
18th, 1881, No. IL assessable series
This certifies that S. E. billiard is the
owner of twenty-five shares of the cap
tai stock of the Nevada and Oregon
Railroad Company of the par value of :
me hundred dollars each, subject to the
all of the Board of Directors of five per
cent. per month Of said par value, and
on the books of the COM
,any, subject to the provisions of the
bylaws, by endorsement hereon and
of this certificate. T. Coffin, s
Secretary ; E. D. Wheeler, President; {
sealed Nevada and Oregon R. r. Co."
1 borrowed pistol at Matt PARROTS
he morning Of the 9th and returned
t after the affray. It was self-cocker,
lark cOlored, and it was loaded. Bor-
owed one before when I was put in
barge of the safe. Borrowed one at {
he time Of the big fire. Am in the {
abit of carrying pistol, but it was in
ny house, over the river. Have not e
arried one for perhaps a year. AS l Il
vent into the gunshop, 1 saw Nc
iechan there. Parrot was working at
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