Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-23

The Secretary of the sweetwater
Mining Company Encounters n

The Secretary of n Sweetwater
Mining Company Encounters n
Burglar.
Mr.. James Bruce, Of New York, is Secre-
tary OF the Sweetwater Mining Company
Of Hamilton, White Pine. He lately had
an experience with q burglar which is re-
ported as follows in the New York Sun:
James Bruce, a retired merchant, occu-
pies the handsome house at 46 East Thirty
fourth street, two doors east Of Madison
avenue. The house stands pack from the
street, and has q low stoop and a deep
basement. The house next west belongs TO
the late Henry A. Burr, and the house on
the corner is occupied by Fred III. Cossitts
family.
According to his custom on Mondays,
Mr.. Bruce, who is over so years old, with
a fresh rosy complexion. gray hair, and q
pointed gray beard, got up at 4 A. M. yes
terday to take a bath, before the servants
had drawn all the hot water for wash day.
Mr.. Bruce uses the large back room on the
third floor as a bedroom, and adjoining it
il his bathroom. Mr.. Bruce says that he
had TO fight a burglar before he got his
bath yesterday.
IT went into the bathroom" he said,
and turned on the water, and while the
tub was filing / walked back into my room
and opened the window to take q look at
the weather. As l closed the window and
turned around to go back to the bathroom,
l saw q man lying face down on the carpet
alongside my bed. He did not stir as l
turned.
"'What do you want here2' I asked,
what do you want2'
1.-The man did not answer, but got up
from the floor and faced me. l made q
quick step TO the head of my bed and took
my revolver from under the pillow. 1t
is a 44.calibre pistol-a big one.
Don't you shoot the man said, cody
drawing out a pistol, two can play at that
game As the burglar raised his pistol l
fired, and l am sure | hit him. He did
not return the shot, but retreated back
ward to the hall door, opened it, and went
out into the hall. / followed him, and as
| he stood at the head of the stairs I fred
again. / am almost positive that l hit him
| again. He stood still q moment and then
tumbled or fell down one fight, and ran
| hastily dow the others into the basement.
| Then he opened the door, ran up the steps
and disappeared in the street. / was in
my night clothes and could not follow,
but ! think | would recognize him il | saw
him again."
Mr.. Bruce took his bath and ate his
breakfast. Then he went to Captain
williams station house and told Detective
Price his story. A silver butter-knife with
| the initials "a. W." and q silver spoon
marked "Annie," had been stolen from
one OF the rooms, he said, and $40 in
money from the pockets OF his clothing.
Detective Price made a careful search OF
Mr.. Bruce's house and found no marks
made by the bullets from Mr.. Bruce's
heavy Colts pistol. There were M blood
stains on the carpets. A window of the
pack parlor had been forced open and q
stepladder rested against the fence in the
yard of No. A. The servants in Mr..
Bruce's house did not hear the noise made
by the thief in forcing his way into the
house, but they heard the two shots fired
by Mr.. Bruce and the noise made by the
thief as he hurried down the stairs and
olattered westward down the street. Mr..
Bruce describes the thief as being about
Detective Prices hight. and very swarthy.
He had a black moustache, and wore q
blue suit and a black Derby hat. Price
thinks he was a negro. Superintendent
Murray sent out this alarm:
Make careful inquiry ct all hospitals,
drug stores, and residences OF physicians
and surgeons il they have treated, or had
application for treatment from a man
suffering from a pistol-shot wound since
4 o'clock this morning.