Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-10-14

Henry, my brother, forgive the hard
things | have thought of you! Every
thing dwindles into insignificance in the
presence of calamity such as this.
How futile and insincere all my specu-
| latons seem nowl And now repentance
is az futile, however sincere it may be.
But we must not think of our sorrow
yet. The first thing to be done is to dis
cover and to punish.
shall never forget that knocking at
my door | can hear it now. ! shall
hear it in my dreams 1t seemed to carry
its message with it before a word was
spoken. And yet. when the words were
| spoken. | could not understand them
| They fell like meaningless sounds on my
ear And cannot help thinking that.
had been well and about that night,
this would not have happened. He must
have exposed himself needlessly. He was
always needless. confident and fearless
| remember his saying once that he bore
a charmed life A curse on all supersti-
tions! And be those Juggling fiends no
more believed who palter with us in a
double sensel
II could not have happened earlier
than O'Clock in the morning must
have slept more than three hours when
was aroused. and when | last looked at
my watch IL was between II and l2 Ii
was 3 when Tom knocked on my door,
and ne had inst come from him. He
found him still warm. and he could
hardly have been dead more than half
an hour. But he was dead. and he must
have died instantly The bullet. fired
from behind. struck him below the left
shoulder and went through his heart.
The body lay at the foot of the cliff.
and from its appearance Henry must
have been standing near its verge when
he was struck and have fallen or been
pushed over The fall was upward of 20
feet There We're bruises on the body.
and some dirt and a small fragment Of
rock had fallen with him from above
He must have been standing there look
ing down into the wood below when the
villain crept up behind him and fired.
The shot was at close range-not more
than Sor 10 feet away II seems strange
that he heard no footstep Yet if he had
he would surely have turned round. and
then the bullet would have struck him
in front
These points will probably be eluci.
dated at the trml. when we know whom
to try OF course there is no doubt that
the murderer WAS one of the burglars
Thus far. however. no trace of any bur.
glars has been seen Neither John nor
Tom discovered any signs of them, either
before or after the shooting This is
the more strange because the murder
proves that they must have been there.
They had made no attempt upon the
house however. though they must have
known that il was empty. and if they
got wind of our intention to capture
them. or II on arriving ON the ground
they discovered our ambush. why did
they not retire at once instead of putting
their necks III II moose by II wanton as
sitssinationr Had there been signs that
Henry had attempted to arrest one of
them and that struggle had taken
place we might suppose that they had
shot him self defense. but the indications
are that he was approached unawares.
The evidence on this point will have to
be carefully sifted AT present 1t is per
picking
The dominion of mind over matter can
seldom have been more conclusively il
Illustrated than it was in my case when
| | was made to comprehend what had
happened A moment before | was as
helpless AZ any cripple can be and suf-
fering acute pain. Five minutes after
ward was beside my brothers dead
body "A quarter of mile away have
been conscious of no pain since. and
now even the traces of Inflammation are
gone. | have no distinct RECOLLECTION of
what did. but must have sprung from
my char and run nj full speed. all band
aged as ! WAS. to the place where he lay.
This indeed Is Tom account of the mat
ter.
He says that toward in the morning
he heard a report as of pistol, but it
was at some distance. and he was at first
disposed to think ne had been mistaken
He had for more than an hour past given
mp all expectation Of the success of the
ambush and was beginning to feel some-
what sleepy. However. he went along
in the direction from which the sound had
seemed to come. stopping every Eow and
then to look and listen, hut detecting moth
ing, and he was just on the point of aban-
doning the search when he saw something
dark lying near the foot of the cliff. He
took it for small rock or fallen bowlder,
but as he did not remember having be-
fore noticed anything of the kind in the
/ place he came nearer to examine.
Until he stood within yard of it no
suspicion as to what it really was enter
ed his mind. Then in moment he knew
1t was mans body, but even then he
thought of tramp fallen asleep and not
of Henry or of any one he knew. But
when he noticed how the body lay-face
downward, with one arm doubled under