Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-04
NEWS OF A DAY.
The Killing of Tweedy at
Lancaster.
LONG BEACH PROCEED EGS.
The W. G.. T. U. Takes Charge for a
Brief Period at the Method
ist Alliance.
LONG BEACH PROCEEDINGS.

Authentic information was received in
the city yesterday morning too late to
appear in the HERALD of the killing of
William Tweedy, the well.known cattle
man of Antelope Valley, by w. G..
Wheeling. The affair took place Tues
day Loon at small place called May
nard, short distance from Lancaster.
The town of Lancaster and the district
round about appears to be honeycombed
with feuds of all sorts. A great many
lawsuits, criminal complaints, with sup
Elementary cross-complaints, keep COM
ing down from that section, growing out
OF these feuds and quarrels. Tweedy
and Wheeling have both been mixed up
in number of these. Each has great
many friends, and the chances are the
case will be an awkward enc to try. Al
ready there are two distinct accounts of
the way the killing took place.
The quarrel between the two was one
OF long standing. Some tune ago Tweedy
charged Wheeling with having killed
some of his hogs. Wheeling was tried
and cleared. A little later some of
Tweedy's horses trespassed upon Wheel
ing's land, and he captured and held
them. When Tweedy and some of his
friends came in and took the horses away
Wheeling had them arrested and ex-
amined for stealing.
Tuesday, about 2 O'Clock, Tweedy was
waiting in Georges blacksmith shop, in
the town of Maynard, while his horse
was being shod. Wheeling happened to
enter the same shop, and Tweedy
opened the fracas by asking
his enemy why he had killed
a certain bull. Wheeling answered with
asperity, and the quarrel soon became
very fierce. Both the men are fighting
characters; Tweedy is said to have been
a man absolutely without fear. As to
what took place in the next few minutes
there is disagreement. Tweedy's
friends say that he, anticipating from
the way in which Wheeling spoke that
there would be fight, stopped down to
pick up chisel, and that as he did 30
Wheeling shot him twice in the back.
Tweedy's own statement, made just be-
fore his death, was to the same effect.
Wheeling, on the other hand, says that
he had done nothing at all to ipjure
Tweedy, when the latter picked up a
piece of iron and advanced upon him.
He drew his revolver and warned him to
keep away, but in vain. When Tweedy
was only few feet away Wheeling fired
twice. The first ball entered the groin
and the other the abdomen.
Several people who heard the reports
ran up and found Tweedy writhing upon
the floor Of the shop mortally wounded.
Wheeling went direct to the house of
Constable Johnson and gave himself up.
He told Johnson that he knew Tweedy's
friends would start a cry of lynching
without waiting to try the justice of the
case and he wanted to get out of the
town as soon as possible. johnson and
his prisoner set out for Acton and early
yesterday morning took the train from
there for Los Angeles.
At about in the evening Tweedy died.
His friends were reused to a pitch of
fury, which would probably have re-
suited fatally for Wheeling, had they
been able to get at him.
A jury of inquest was convened yes
terday at Lancaster, but the papers have
not yet been sent down. The body of
the murdered man now lies at the NOR
que. 1t will be taken away by Tweedy's
frieAds today and buried in the Ell Monte
cemetery.
Constable johnson brought his pris-
oner 10 the city yesterday morning and
lodged him in the County Jail.