Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-15

"a Killed P. Schneider, engineer of
 '. Tombstone Company's mill near
 1.s,1eston. He was at once arrested
 ., taken to Tombstone, and from
 L., nlsce brought to the Tucson jail
 sr Marshal siDpy and Constables
 ws.tfuller, Virgil Earp and George
 v.Kelyey. The details of the affair,
 :, ,slegraphed from Charleston last
 sisht, gre ss follows:
 1bou, half past twelve o'clock to-
 lar p Schneider, the Chief Engineer
 -Stbe Tombstone Mill and Mining
 C,nDauv, st thls place, was eating
 sinner at a hotel, when petty gam
 sr- known as Johnny behind the
 ;ooce 5,@ aud himself had few words.
 1o5nny behind the deuce then lett the
 .sble and went out, coming back
 .-sin in 8 few minutes armed with 6
 ,;voIyer. and told Schneider that he
 .ronld fix him when he (Schneicer )
 Vot satisfied with this, he again re.
 ,,-ned. making use of the same ex-
 ,,s.sious. He then left the hotel 8
 isroDd time, and walked about fifty
 rsris from the house, waiting al the
 !1-1er of & corral. MT. Schneider,
 s6sr eating his dinner. walked down
 nssi he corral, when Johnny, pull
 iog out his pistol, met Schneider.
 Schneider, seeing the pistol, said to
 5im. "Go away from me, and let me
 .Iope. I don't know you, and was
 7o, even talking 10 you at the table. '"
 Johnny then advanced step or two
 .,d called Schneider several names,
 g1d raising his postol deliberately
 ,bot hlm, the ball passing through
 tbe head, killing him instsntly. The
 murderer then dropped his pistol and
 ran about fifty yards to the river,
 when he wEs caught by Constable
 NcKelvey. Constable Bell imme- 5istely got spring wagon. and with Constable McKelvey and another man, armed with shotgun, drove of :; fast ss they could for Tombstone. Great excitement prevails here, as Nr. Schneider is 8 man respected by all
 A CITIZEN reporter visited Rourke {, the jsil today, and found him to be rather prepossessing young man, who gave his age as nineteen next April, and stated that he is e miner by occupation; that he has been in ;be Territory about three years, hay ing been around Tombstone for the last two years, and that prior to go- iDg there he had been 6 porter at the Palace Hotel for 8 short time. He is rather under the average size, has fair face, slight black mustache and
 Esll-marked eyebrows. blue eyes and black hair, and seemed quiet and self possessed. He gave the reporter the following account of the affair, which will be found to differ very materially from that given above.
 "I didn't know Schneider very well, and never had spoken a dozen words to him before thIs affair hap pened. l went into Smiths restsu- rant st noon 10 get lunch. had been drinking few glasses of beer, but was sober enough to know what was about. After got through eating l went to the fireplace to light cigar. Schneider made 8 remark that thought was intended to be insulting st least 1t had that manner--thst 1t must be cold. Yes 1 says, it is cold Then Schneider says, l ain't talking to you. . We'll says l, you're A little too smart, anyhow I got up | and started to 90 out, and Schneider jumped up and made break at me as if he was going to strike me, and called me 8, d-d----.'I Bob Petty was there and he jumped up aud caught hold of Schneider and | made hIm sit down. There were iome ladies in the restaurant, and it made me awful mad to be called that. told him that 1 had too much re- ipect for the ladies to fight him in ihere, but to come out on the side walk. l went out and started down street, and Bsb came out and spoke is me l said to him, It was bet ter, anyhow, Bob; I didn't want any trouble with hIm.' While we were talking, the telegraph operator came out and said, Why, that old fellow is crazy I said, Well, let's 60 down to the saloon and take drink We started of for the saloon, and Schneider caught up to us al the corner of the corral. looked around and said, don't want you 10 throw out any more insults to me- He says, wasn't talking 10 you 1 said'
 Well, that's all right, then, if you wasn't supposiug was,' says Schneider, what are you going to do spout it' l says, I ain't a-going to 70 anything about Schneider seemed . get mad, and kept coming nearer Ind nearer. l kept stepping back, and lnally he got SO close I put my left lsnd against him, as he got nearer. said, Go away from me; don't want any trouble with You,' He had Knife in his hand. was excited, J course, for the man was twice as big Asll was. I'm noucertain whether the 'niie was open or not, for his hand was sideways to me, and l could only 'ee The end of the handle. He con- aaued to crowd against me, and pulled my gun, There Rourks made aouon as if to draw, ID illustration' ae reporter supposed, of his sccountJ E-l .