Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-24
THREE MEN SHOT IN LUNDY.
The Result Of an cid Fcud-The
sheriff and HIS Deputies Involved
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Bodie Free Press. Oct. 20.
Early yesterday morning messengers
came IN from Lundy and called DR..
Walker to go Immediately to that place to
attend three men who were reported to be
badly wounded in two shooting scrapes
that occurred Saturday night. The first
shooting transpired between Deputy Sher.
lit Kirk Stoves and Charley Jardine. II
appears that Stoves had been in J. E.
Wilson's saloon after making a round of
the town as a special officer during the
examination Of Wilson, the man under
arrest for stopping the stage and abduct-
ing the Chinawoman, and was about leav-
ing the place, when he stopped short and
reached for his shotgun, which he seemed
to have forgotten for the moment. Just
then Charley Jardine came suddenly in
contact with him, from the direction of
Noonan's lodging-house, and seeing the
shotgun in Stoves hands, struck the gun
to the sidewalk. Simultaneously the two
men drew their pistols and two shots we're
hred-the first one by Jardine and the
second by Stoves a moment later. A third
shot was fired, but no one seems to &C.
count for that report. Jardine received q
bullet In the lower part of the abdomen,
which passed through. Stoves got a shot
In the lowest ribs In the side, but where
the ball lodged was not ascertained. Both
men are dangerously wounded. This CO.
CURED soon after III P. NJ, and in about
three hours afterwards Deputy Sheriff
William Callihan WAS shot in the same sa-
loon by George NJ. Lee, and wounded in
u o manner that he will be crippled for
life if it does not prove fatal. According
to a statement from Callihan, the two
men were discussing the situation, when
Lee became violent in his denunciation of
all the officers. Lee then passed out and
up to the room where Jardine lay wound
ed. He soon returned and repeated that
the officers were sons of =. Callihan
threatened to arrest him, whereupon Lee
declared that he could not be taken. CALI
han then produced a pair Of handouts and
was going to put them on him, when he
said he would go with him if the
bracelets were not used. Callihan
states that at this point he was about
returning the cuffs to his pocket
when he saw Lee draw his pistol, which he
struck down as the weapon was discharged
at a range to catch him tCallihan) in the
leg, just below the hip. The ball took eff
feet in the large bone, SCATTERING it fright
fully. AT the same instant Lees pistol
was btI uChy Odllliihu uItH d ItfOlttT WIFI
his right hand and struck Lee across the
face, breaking his nose. Other statements
have it that Callihan struck Lee first, or
before Lee fired. The shot is likely to
prove fatal if amputation of the leg is
found necessary. Lee was arrested and
lodged in Jail.
During the same evening Morris Marks
WAS arrested by Callihan on a charge of
completely to do bodily harm. He was
subsequently released on bail, and came to
Bodie yesterday. In the afternoon w. o.
Lundy, a Deputy Sheriff, came in from
Lundy and re-arrested Marks, who went
before Justice Phlegar and gave $500 bail
to appear to-day, pending the action of the
Mill Creek magistrate.
The whole trouble arose in connection
with the examination of the man Wilson,
who Is up on the charge OF kidnapping the
Chinawoman, and is also held to answer
for some crime committed in Kern county.
Sheriff Mckinney had jealousy guarded
this prisoner, and in collecting testimony
had SIX or more deputies appointed, among
whom was Callahan, who had assisted in ar
resting Wilson; also Jardine-the latter
having been examined N acquitted in
Bridgeport. There was an intensely bitter
feeling between a number Of the boys and
the officers deputized, and a shooting
scrape has been anticipated for several
days.
If any part of the rumors in circulation
be true it will cast reflection on several res
idents of Lundy as aiding the man Will
son. One. officer states that some days
since Wilson's attorney, @. A. Schuman,
had a personal encounter with Sheriff Nc
Kinney as the latter was taking his pris-
oner to dinner, and offered to fight the
Sheriff, but that the latter became alarmed
lest the scheme was to give the prisoner an
opportunity to escape, and Immediately
locked the prisoner up and then returned
to find that Schuman had gone. This,
however, is a serious charge. and ought
not be talked of until the whole unfortunate
business is Investigated. There are deter
mined, if not desperate, men on both sides,
and it is probable that the citizens will not
interfere till proper examinations are had.