Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-06

gent fell to the floor deau, with
big bullet hole bored from
through his head, It wi was claimed that tho
bullet was fired by Johnny Keyes, indeed, it
was quite certain that Keyes had
fired it, but the family of the muir.
dered boy refused to prosecute. That
same man Keyes had killed his man up north
before, and later, it is said, shot dead in a
Texas court room district attorney, for
which he is now in jail. Price is now doing
a five-year term in the pen for safe blowing.
-Four or five years after Jimmie Nugent
was murdered a brother of his, Billy Nugent,
was shot lSown dead by John Kley while
driving along at the corner of Fourteenth
and jackson streets, about IL o'clock atnight.
Kiley was acquitted, and he just got out OF
another shooting scrape at Crcston, Ia, o
few weeks ago.
Near Kesslcr's hall on South Thirteenth
street, about O'Clock on morning early in
October of 1887, there occurred horrible
murder. Peter Lutz shot man named Pat
Lynch, The latter had run away from Cres-
ton, Ia, with Lutz's wife, and Lutz found
him living with her But Lutz was acquitted
"a murder that attracted an unusual
amount OF attention on account of several
features connected with it happened about
midday in saloon on Thirteenth street,
right where the Omaha National bank build
ing now stands The principals were Jimmy
Burke and "A cattle man named We'll, who
came from Texas. They got into a quarrel
w pluNHlS Bdmc VI pun.
We'll finally quit the place, and some Of
Burkes friends-or cnemies-wh0 had been
present at the dispute, urged him to find O.
revolver and 60 cunning for Well They
kept at him so long that he finally found Well
in Collins harness shop on Farnam street.
Walking up to his victim with all the cool
ness imaginable, Burke suddenly put his pis-
tol right up against Wells heart and fired.
No sooner had he pulled the trigger than
We'll grabbed him and hurled him through
"a m
and clenched We'll and fought distance OF
several feet to the front door AS
they reached there We'll had gotten
Burke's revolver away, and putting it in
trigger when he dropped dead. A pOstmor-
TEN showed that We'll had been shot squarely
through the heart Thus, the fact that he
not only hurled his assassin with great force
several feet, but fought him desperately for
fully two minutes, all after his
heart had been penetratd by 44-calibre
ball, goes on record as one Of the most
remarkable instances Of the kind. Judge
Savage sent Burke to the penitentiary for
twelve years and in doing so said with
urged Burke on to commit the deed were
more guilty than Burke himself. Burke
served out his sentence and is now living in
Chicago, although at one time he lived at the
Bluffs"
New Yorks Literary Sale.
Inc recent death OF MIR. ~. Is. Bunce,
the literary adviser for Appleton's and
the author of DON'T" closes another Of
the literary drawing rooms of the me-
trOpOlis. There are a few others still left.
Stedman, the poet; Jennie June, Kate
Sanborn, Mrs. Vincent Botto, and the
Gilders; but the 'salon" on the Partisan
style has never been fully acclimated in
New York, and we are more given to
clubs than purely literary receptions. l
have many pleasant recollections ot
evenings spent at Alice and Phoebe Ca
rey's cosy home at Twentieth street.
Fanny FERNS house over against Stuy-
vesant Park; Mrs. Prof, Youman's and
Mary l., Booths reunions, Mrs Cleye-
lands Horace Greeley's sister, Mrs.
Botto's and Mrs, Croly's. The Carey's
Sunday evenings We're the least preten-
tious, informal and truly delightful OF
all. | have met there Horace Greeley,
Il. Y. Barnum, Foster, the medium, Oil
YER Johnson, Colonel Thomas Knox,
Whitelaw Reid, Mary i. Booth, Junius
II. Browne and many other literary ana
! cal lions.