Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-05-30
The Candelariu Murder.

result of senseless drunken joke.
The following from the CandelarIa
True Fissure is the testimony Of the
nun II Afferty.
About eleven o'clock on the night
of MAY Is, 1888, was in Jenny Nc
Donald's house. in Candelarla. Two
men came in and she sent me after
bottle of whisky. When | came back
we all had several drinks and one of
the men went away. After some talk
with the man who remained, | went
out leaving Jenny and the man to-
gether. This was the last | saw of
her until the next day, when saw her
dead. / went down to my house,
where there was man by the name of
Campbell sleeping in my bed. |
spoke something with him and thought
by his actions that he was pretty full.
have gun there which belongs to
the military company, whose arms and
accoutrements have been in my charge
for nearly year. / thought from the
way Things were looking | had better
take it up to the armory. l placed the
gun behind Tommy Edwards saloon
by the back stairs, not wanting to 90
in at the front door with gun in my
hands at that time ct the night |
then went into the saloon and got the
key of the armory. | saw Corcoran,
the defendant, sitting in chair talk.
ing TO some one. | don't know for
certain who it was, but my impression
is that it was Charlie Richardson, the
man who'is now stopping in the Jail
with me. The defendant spoke to me
and was joking me about Jenny Nc
Donald. | don't know exactly what /
said to him, but think it was that when
| last saw her she had mule in the
stall. He laughed at this and said,
I'd shoot the son of bitch, or
words to that effect. | shook my head
at him and said, guess I'll &c home
and go to bed. | then went out on
the porch and there found Dave Cor
coran and Richardson. Corcoran said,
let's go down town or down to Jen-
ny's, | don't know which, "and have
some fun" | answered, all right.
But, wait | have got something behind
the house that | forgot to take up
stairs but III either take it down to
the house or up stairs. / then went
and got the gum, Richardson going
with me. Corcoran joined us when
we came back to the street and went
on down the street with us. We saw
man crossing the street ahead of us,
and Richardson, who was carrying the
gun said, Il have notion to shoot
over his head and scare him" Cor
coran said, No, don't, but let us go
to Jenny's and shoot over her house
and scare her. and he clapped his
hands on his knees. Richardson want.
ed to go to bed. Corcoran said, come
on, anyhow, it won't hurt anybody"
We all then went towards the house,
| getting hold of the gun, telling them
to let me use it, rs I was accustomed
to using 1t, and not liable TO hurt any
body. We went to the rear of the
house. Corcoran raped on the door,
as he did so thought | heard some
body inside. | said I'll wake them
up with a good big noise and turned
around to raise the gun, when Corcor-
an said, "give il to me-" All this was
said in low tone. Richardson said,
you two fellows are too drunk, let
me have it, you might hurt somebody"
Corcoran finally got the gun from me,
having previously pointed to II spot on
the house and SAID he, thought that
would be high enough" just as |
turned around to see where he was,
the gun went of. Corcoran dropped
the gun on the ground and ran away
and so did Richardson. l picked up
the gun and moved toward my place
found Corcoran and Richardson
there. AS came up they pulled me
inside. Richardson took the gnn and
put it behind Campbell who was in
the bed, and then ran out of the house.
Corcoran had already gone. | went
up TO Donahues saloon and heard the
talk about Jenny Mcdonald bciug
killed, and asked who had done it
One said he thought it was the tinker.
| then ran back to my house and got
the gun and some cartridges. AS !
was trying to load it just outside of
the door, it went of accidentally. |
tried to find out how badly Jenny was
hurt but got afraid and ran towards
the hills, and was afterwards arrested.
The examination resulted in the
three men all being SEN to Aurora for
trial. They left Yesterday morning in
charge of Constable Smith.