Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-06-11

The Testimony of Witnesses and
the InquisitiOn by the Jury BE.
fore Ex-OfiicO Coroner Harmon
Yesterday-The Burial of the De-
ceased.
Yesterday morning the following named
gentlemen were summoned as jurors to sp-
pear before Acting Coroner Harmon to in
quire into the cause of the death Of James
j. Hughes: George Green, Robert Hagar.
W. Miller, j. B. Keen, Benjamin @. Levy
and William Smith.
O. Rossetti. being duly sworn, testified
as follows: I knew deceased in his life
time; his name was James J. Hughes; 1
last saw him alive ON June 9, 1885, at about
4 o'clock P. M; L. Monaco, Felix Maginni
and myself were with him yesterday at
Jack Crawford's ranch, in Eureka county;
meeting deceased and Mr.. Monaco I came
down from the hill where they had been
hunting; deceased took q seat in the back
part OF the carriage in q reclining position;
when came to the buggy he raised him
self straight; he had his gun between his
legs, and when he moved the gun to re-
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out OF his hand, and the hammer struck
one side of the carriage; then the shot went
of which struck him on the right cheek
and went up through his head and blew his
brains out; he died immediately; be did
not make q move after the shot; the gun
was q shotgun, loaded with No. 6 shot; the
reason he Strengthened himself up was to
make room for me to take a seat in the car
riage alongside Of him.
l.. Monaco testified as follows: Being
one OF the hunting party / started from
the upper part OF the ranch, (Crawford's);
he was q little ahead Of me; he reached the
carriage and got into it; / hunted around
a few minutes, then went to the carriage
myself; before | started to get into the
carriage l made this remark: " James, ap-
parently you are tired. HE answered: No,
| am not exactly so, but nv boots pinch
me-my feet are Sore" At the time of this
conversation he was lying down on tbs
back seat OF the carriage; a few minutes
after l was in the carriage; Rossetti came
to within q few feet of the same, and de.
ceased remarked to Rossetti:"Well, Rossetti
what did you kill2" Rossetti answered.: 81
did not shoot; / did not kill anything;''
in a second or two after that | heard a
shot; did not see how il was done; I saw
deceased partly raised up and half of his
face was gone, and blood flowing freely
from the shattered flesh; his right hand
grasped the railing Of the back seat.
The testimony Of Felix Maginni, also a
member Of the party, was substantially
the same as that given by Rossetti and
Monaco.
The jury hereupon found that the de.
ceased, James ]. Hughes, was a native of
Indiana; was about "a years OF age; that
he came to bis death on the 9th day Of
June. 1885 in this county from an accidental
gunshot wound while out on a hunting
trip, the gun being in his own hands, and
the discharge thereof having been caused
by the gun slipping from the hands of the
deceased. and the hammer striking the
side Of the wagon in which he was at the
time sitting.
The deceased being q member in good
standing Of Ter.e Haute (Indiana) Lodge
No. 81, l. o. 0. F., the remains were
buried from the Odd Fellows Hall at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon under the
auspices of Mountain Lodge No. ~ and
Eureka Lodge No. %. The attendance at
the hall was large and the ceremonies i'm
pressive. The remains were followed to
their resting place In the Odd Fellows
Cemetery by o host OF friends as well as
the members of the lodges named and
s%oiourning brethren Of the order.