Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-19
NEAGLE AND HIS GUN.
Episodes I'm the Career of Judge
Terry,s SLAYER.

EPis0oes IN the Career of Judge
Terry's slayer.
"The ups and downs of life are passing
strange" said an old miner TO q Cal re-
porter last night. "Here's Dave Neagle.
whom we all knew 80 we'll as a shotgun
miner up in Nevada, posing now as a
hero, because he shot down man. I
tell you it must have made Dave laugh
when he read those descriptions of him.
self, of his quiet, gentlemanly demeanor
OF his tender, lamb-like disposition.
"Then he has had a checkered
career?" said the reporter.
"Well, to put it mildly, yes," was the
answer. "Checkered. however, hardly
describes it. 1 don't think Dave, with
all his faults, would like to sail under
false colors, SO if you'd like to hear
the true story of that Mexican
adventure OF his, I'Il give you that as
q starter. He was then Chief of Police
OF Tombstone, and the Mexican, who
was nothing more nor less than q
drunken vaquero, went off on spree and
ended by having row with some wo-
man, whom he cut-just drunken row,
you know. Well, Dave had just been
put in as Chief, and when he heard of
the trouble he started off with Q posse
after the Greaser. In that country they
don't do things in a lady-like manner,
and as the posse started round it made
people know that something was going
on. The Mexican was in a saloon when
ne heard they were coming, and, believ-
ing discretion desirable, he sneaked out
tho hQnH donr nd NJ %o, k-I l. 4
his hands and knees toward the pig.pen
where he proposed hiding. He was half
way across when Neagle sighted him. He
up with his revolver, before the other
knew any one was in the neighborhood,
and potted him with a bullet in the
head.
SHOT LIKE DOG.
"Rather makes me laugh to hear peo-
pie talking about this wild Mexican get
ting off to his lair, shooting off his gun
and painting the town red, while brave
Neagle gets in and kills him. Why, the
poor Greaser had not even a chance to
defend himself"
"Neagle has done quite good deal of
killing in his time, has he not ?'' asked
the reporter.
"Well, yes," answered the miner, che
has been in that business to s very con-
siderable extent. / have not kept track
OF him so thoroughly as some people
have, but do know of some work he
has done. He WAS bad friends with
fellow named jim Levy up in Pioche and
they had row. The same day Jim went
off on big drunk, and Dave thought the
opportunity a good one to pot him.
Levy was firing off his gun
in the street and making con-
siderable of a row, when Neagle en-
sconsed himself behind the big wheel of
an ore wagon and waited develop
ments. Jim eaw him and fred at him,
but his position saved him. Then Dave
took aim and fred. The bullet struck
Levy right in the center of the forehead,
but instead of burying itself in the skull,
glanced upward and plowed through the
scalp without doing much injury. shortly
after that Jim got out cf Phoebe and went
down Arizona way, where he was shot by
some other fellow.
do good deal of work up in Nevada,
He obtained quite reputation as a shot.
gun miner, and did a good deal Of it. The
shotgun miner does not do any digging,
you know. He first locates on dump.
behind an earthworks, and when a man
with paper comes along-well, some-
times there's shot fred-sometimes
there's q death.
KILLED HIS PARTNER.
"The last of Dave Neagle's exploits,
though, that l know about, was up in
Butte. He was mining up there, and he
had a partner. After working together
amicably for some time the two had
falling out over money matters. l be-
lieve the partner had some coin he would
not 'divy on They had some high
words, and Neagle just out with his pis-
tol and killed him dead as door nail.
"But he's cunning fellow, though"
continued the miner. "He hastened
back to the mine and told all the boys
that his partner was boiling, and that he
shot him to secure their money for
them. We'll, they thought he was all
right, and did nothing"
How did Neagle get elected Chief of
Police OF ombstone ?" was asked.
by promising something he did not
perform. Tombstone was pretty rough
place in those days and family of ive
boys-the Earps-assisted by q chap
named Doc Holiday, sort of run the
town. They used to march round with
big revolvers, firing here and
there as they pleased. Neagle
promised to disarm them If he
was elected, and on the strength of his
promise he was put in. Do you know he
never touched an carp as long as he was
in there-never laid a finger on one of
them2 He was beaten for the same
place next year, however. Why, there's
thousands of things told about him. l
believe he has been accused of eyery
crime in the calendar, but some how or
other he has had good luck and never
got arrested. fs
WHAT HE WAS IMPORTED FOR. a
II suppose you know he was imported
here to bring "Big'' Burns-Buckley's
henchman--to his senses. He's dead
shot, you know, and proficient manip-
ulator OF the revolver. Some one else
got in on Burns and that saved him."
Whats that story about his beating
fallen woman almost to death 2" was
asked.
"That was since his arrival here. An
evening paper, you know, made a good
deal of talk about it at the time. l be-
lieve he and she had some row and he
was Deputy Sheriff. Well, he got in
and nearly killed her; he beat and
trounced her cruelty, and, believe, left
her for dead. There was lot about it
in the papers at the time. If you were
to go at it you could get q great many
stories about NeaQle He ia ono of those