The record-union., 1893-07-01
MORE BLOODSHED.
Sheriff PaScoe Of Nevada
Shot and Killed
By the NurderouS Tramp Who
Shot Brakeman Bruce.
CorFaHel in an Old Foundry at Grass
Valley Last Night,
But Escaped into the ChaParraI- The People
Wild With Ragge-IIe Can
Hardly Get Away.

The tramp who shot Brakeman James
Bruce at Gold Run the other night has
been heard from again.
Last night he murdered Sheriff Pascoe
of Nevada County while the latter was
attempting to arrest him. The news
came about midnight in special dispatch
from Sheriff Conroy of Placer County to
Division Superintendent J. B. Wright OF
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The message was brief, and did not go
into extended details of the tragedy. 1t
simply notified Colonel Wright of the
killing of Pascoe, and requested him to
have all suspicious characters arriving
here from that direction arrested, and to
notify all officers.
From what could be learned of the ter
rible affair at o'clock this morning, it
appears that the tramp was discovered
sneaking into the outskirts of Grass VAL
ley last night, and the officers, including
Sheriff Pascoo of Nevada and Sheriff
Conroy of Placer, who was there, were
soon on his trail.
The murderer's route lay through a
rough gorge or canyon, in the middle of
which is an old ana abandoned foundry.
Being called on to surrender, he shot
and killed Sheriff Pascoe and then took
refuge in the old foundry.
The building was besieged, and it was
thought for time that the desperate
could be kept there until morning, when
his capture could be effected.
But lie gave his besiegers the slip by
crawling out of the foundry and into the
thick chaparral, which grows down close
10 the building.
There is great excitement in Nevada
and Grass Valley over the killing of
Sheriff Pascoe, who was a man greatly
esteemed there and popular all over that
county. He leaves wife and large family
to mourn his loss.
At o'clock this morning Railroad Of
1icer Ben True left on special train for
Colfax, where Superintendent Kidder, of
the narrow gauge road, will have loco
motive in readiness to take him to Grass
Valley.
The officer is accompanied by a man
who knows the murderer and will be
able to identify him if the enraged people
of Nevada County do not first get at him.
Ifthey do, it is doubtful if anyone will be
able to recognize him.
The country in the immediate vicinity
is wild and rough, and the murderer
may succeed in eluding his pursuers for
few days, but it is believed he will
eventually be captured, as the people OF
the entire county will be on the lookout
for him.
II wouldn't give much for that fellows
Chances" said Yardmaster Newton to the
reporter this morning. SHERIFF Pascoe
was a Cornishman, and the county is
FULL Of Cornish miners who loved him, as
did everybody else.
'These Cornishmen will turn out en-
masse to run down his murderer, and if
they get hold of him, God pity him."
ANOTHER SUSPECT.
Word was received from Red Bluff
late last night that tramp had been ar
tested there who answers the description
given of the man who shot Bruce. While
;he railroad officials have no doubt that
the man who shot Sheriff Pascoe is the
right one, still they have wired to have
the Red Bluff suspect brought here this
morning.