Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-19
THE mccuLLoueu CASE.
Condition of the Patient and Some
Other Matters.

Other Matters.
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, George
Mccullough, who had been shot by J. J.
Daley, was brought into tow by W. s.
Beard Secretary Of Mountain Lodge No.
~, l. 0. o. F., Of which organization Mr..
Mccullough is o member, DR.. Owen, the
attending physician, accompanying his
patient. Mr.. Mccullough was taken to
his dwelling on Monroe street back Of the
Courthouse, where he is now receiving the
care and attention necessary in his serious
case. The Doctor says that all chest
wounds are bad and dangerous, but that
statistics. collected during the last war in
this country show that the greater number
Of persons 80 wounded recover. Mr.. Nc
Cullough is a man past the middle age,
but he is strong and healthy and the
chances are in his favor, although the crit
ical period in his case has not yet arrived.
He is now tolerably free from pain, but by
tomorrow or next day inflammation in
the wounded flesh will set in, and then
only can the extent and seriousness of his
internal injuries be calculated.
Our reporter waited upon DR.. J. r. N.
Owen yesterday morning and got the fol-
lowing accurate description of McCul-
lough's wounds: One Of the wounds was
made by a ball entering a little back of
and below the point OF the left shoulder.
Ii passed under the joint and traversed
! the front part of the chest slightly down
| wards, going under the breast bone. 1t
out and probably penetrated the upper lobe
of the left lung. 1t broke q rib on the
right Of the breast bone and came out
about an inch above the right nipple. Mr..
Mccullough thinks this was the first
wound he received. The second wound
was made by q ball striking the outer part
Of the left arm, about five inches below the
entrance of the other, passing behind, and
not striking, the bone. The Doctor thinks
this ball, after passing through the arm as
| stated, entered the left breast about on a
level with the point Of exit of the first
shot. This ball passed obliquely across
the breast, a little more downwards than
the first shot. 1t struck the lower left side
OF the breast bone, which it scored and
glanced thence outwards, passing under
the skin and emerging from the body just
| over the stomach, q little to the right Of
the middle line Of the body. Where this
ball, having been fattened, made its exit
it made a slit, as clean a cut as a knife
| wound, for which it was at first mistaken
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was fired did not enter the patients flesh,
| but appears to have cut through o fold Of
| his wooden shirt in front, making two op-
posite holes about an inch apart. The two
| first balls made two holes, one at the point
| of entrance and the other at the point of
| exit, as intimated, and the second, two in
| the arm and two in the front of the body,
| four. The two thus together made six
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| somewhat difficult for some time to find
out precisely the course that the two balls
had taken. 1t is to the advantage of the
| patient that the balls passed through, thus
simplifying the surgical treatment neces-
sary, and reducing the chances Of aggra-
waited Inflammation.
There was much feeling about town
yesterday in regard to the very unfor-
tunate affair. The accounts of the shoot
ing and of the circumstances leading
thereto were different and conflicting, as
il always to be expected in such a case.
Daley was the only one Of the party ar
rested, though Officer Walsh went out to
the Reeves 4 Berry mine informally and
brought to town Hank Story and j. W.
Walker during the afternoon. A reporter
of the SENTINEL was present, with DR.,
Owen, last evening at s o'clock, when
District Attorney CARRIER called upon Mr..
Mccullough to get a statement of the
facts in the case. The terribly wounded
man talked freely and with apparently
but little pain, though the interview was
made as brief as possible for prudential
reasons. The statement was not techni'
cally ante-mortem, and it was not made
under oath. 1t will, perhaps, be better, al
things considered, not to publish just
now what Mr.. Mccullough stated to the
District Attorney, as she case is in his
hands and will be properly investigated
judicially. We feel bound to state, how
ever, for the information Of the many
persons who feel an interest in the case
that Mr.. McCullough's statement differs
in some respects, widely from that OF Mr.
Kermeen published in yesterdays Sen