Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-18
leaves, as far as it goes, the firing of tn

leaves, as far as it goes, the firing Of thu
first shot to be guessed at.
William Perry could not say who fired
the first shot. The report of a pistol at
tracted his attention, and he looked in tn,
direction of the noise. When simmered
down this is the whole story in a nut.
shell. Two witnesses testify positively
that Anderson fired the first shot, another
that he had his pistol leveled at Reek
before the latter started to pull his, and
two others that they could not tell which
one fired the first shot, as neither saw that
shot fred and only had their attention
called to the shooting by that noise.
THE ENTERPRISE WITNESSES.
The Enterprise wants to know why Mrs.
George W. Baker, and NJ. D. Foley, and
Thomas Robinson, and Seth Longabaugh
were not put on the stand. Simply for
these reasons: Mr.. Foley positively as
serted yesterday that he saw nothing of
the affair; Mr.. Robinson only saw it after
Anderson had started up the street in
pursuit of Reek; Mr.. Longabaugh saw
nothing more material; Mrs. George W.
Baker was driving down the street in her
buggy when Anderson appeared walking
rapidly across the street at right angles
with the course of the buggy. For fear
of running over him she refined in her
horse, and, when he had passed, drove
on. Immediately afterwards she heard
shooting, but saw nothing of it. 1t was
reported hat she had witnessed the whole
affray, but the report, like many others
circulating at the time Of the excitement,
proved untrue.
THE WITNESSES.
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different persons have stated that they saw
the affair from beginning to end. A man
from Diamond, A. ]. Johnson, told Judge
Harmon the day after the examination
that he had seen it all, and that Anderson
walked up and fired the first shot. When
asked why he had not lone his duty, and
come and testified, he said he had some
surveying to do and could not afford to
lose the time. Two others, whose testimony
can be had also for the Grand Jury, re-
Trained from testifying, because, as they
said, they did not want to be mixed up ia
it. They testify to the same fact with re-
gard to the first shot.
ANTE-MoRTEM STATEMENT.
Given no ante-mortem statement by
Anderson was taken down, though some
ghouls endeavored to pluck out his polit-
iS"i III LS Nho ! NAID ui iiS boabh
bed" This infammatory paragraph is of
q piece with the rest of the maudlin En-
terprise article. Every effort was made by
Judge Rives and Hon. George W. Baker,
as friends of the deceased, to induce him
to make an ~ante-mortem statement, Judge
Rives urging upon him that it was his
duty to himself and his family to do so.
but he stubbornly declined. Hon. w. II.
Davenport, the District Attorney, and his
Deputy, John L. Baker, used their best
endeavors officially to have him make the
statement, but nothing could extract it
from him. What is the inference? Had
he been able to clear himself, would he not
have done it
THE "~GHoULs."
"Some ghouls endeavored to pluck out
his political secrets while he was lying on
his deathbed." Another gratuitous false
hood. We have the word of Mrs. Judge
Rives that nobody asked him about his
previous political career, and if such in
quiry had been made she would have been
aware of it, as she watched with him con
tlnuously until he became unconscious.
Among the wild rumors afloat in town
while the unfortunate man was balancing
between life and death, there was a story
going the rounds that he had been tele-
graphed to by the press of the East and
asked to tell what he knew of the secrets
of the Returning Board of Louisiana, of
which he was a member. The rumor was
without foundation, though it was a topic
of speculation whether he would say any
thing about that notorious affair of his
own free will. The only ''ghoul" that the
melancholy catastrophe has brought to
the surface is the Virginia Enterprise.
whose breath, at this distance even, has
the smell of a graveyard.
"PoL1TIcAL MURDER"
What the Territorial Enterprise means
by this startling headline, placed above
the testimony at the preliminary exam
nation as quoted from the SENTINEL, is
a %conundrum. A stranger in the coun-
try would infer from the mad utterances
of the Enterprise that the people of Eu-
reka had plotted to assassinate James l..
Anderson, and that they had put for
ward George J. Reek to do the job, hay
ing given him the assurance beforehand
that nothing should be done to try him
for the crime. The Enterprise reflects
its opinion Of the people and officers of
the law in this community in the fol-
lowing question, which it puts to itself:
"Are we such barbarians as to regard the
MINING VI IL iHhu, uluci tuc CIlCuLio1hueoS
thus far disclosed, as merely a
place occurrence ?" Itmatters little what
the Enterprise may think Of the EUREKA
SENTINEL or the people of Eureka. 1t is a
pity, however, that a social monster
should have the opportunity to use the
press az q vehicle Of its incendiary ISLANDERS.
As far as Mr.. Reek is concerned, whom
the Enterprise brands as a poltroon
aud O murderer, it will have an oppor-
tunity to prove it's unsupported assertions.
The proprietors of that paper will be
asked to pay damages in the tune OF
$40, 900, for which the preliminary steps
in a libel suit have already been taken.
The case is in the hands of Messrs. Baker
Il Wines, who will push it vigorously and
doubtless to a successful issue in the Dis
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