The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

direction of Littlefeld. He made some
casual remark to the boy about the cattle,
said he was "going to town Tomorrow"
and passed on.
The next day man brought note into
Covelo addressed to John Rohrbough,
Whites overseer, saying:
have been knocked over. Send some men
to take care of cattle. Send a doctor. Notify
Lady that I have been shot through and
through. VINToN.
There was no word about Littlefeld or
anybody else having done the shooting.
The doctor found that bullet had passed
straight through his left breast, breaking
the sixth rib loose from the SPINE The
"lady'' referred to was Clara Shore, a
young woman 10 whom he is engaged to be
married. She went out and is nursing him
now.
1t was within mile and half of Tom
Hayden's house that Vinton now says he
was shot by Littlefeld. Vinton walked or
crawled half mile down hill and a mile
up hill to reach Hayden's house. He left
his gun and revolver behind. His outer
red flannel shirt is also missing. The
weapons were recovered, but there Is a
Sstery about the shirt. Some say it can
not be found, and others that it has been
found and that it is powder burned, and
will be produced at the right time. 1t will
be noted that nointimat on as to who shot
Vinton reached Covelo before the an
nouncement that Littlefeld had been
hanged for it.
Littlefield and Wilburn brought out the
wild steer that they were engaged with and
joined the Wathen boy the same evening
of the Vinton shooting. They corraled
the cattle and next day started with them
toward Covelo.
On the morning of the rext day-the
second day after Vinton was shot-seven
men left Hayden's house for the declared
purpose of arresting Littlefield for the
shooting. They were Constable Bayliss
Van Horn, John Crow, Gordon Van Horn,
Joe Gregory, Buck Lacock, Fred Radcliffe
and Tom Hayden. Jim Sim mons had been
with the party at the house, but left the
night before, and where he went and what
he did is not known.
Litt!efield, Wilburn and young Wathen
were incoming on Hulls Creek, several miles
southeast of Hayden's house, when Little
held saw Constable Van Horn and Crow
coming along the trail, and remarked that
he supposed they were coming after him.
He remained lying on the grass until Crow
rode down and ordered Littletield to Throw
up his hands.
Il won't throw up my hands for any one
on earth, SAID Littlefield. 'tIf you want
my gun take it,
The Constable took the gun and ordered
Littefeld to get on his horse. The latter
did so, and with the Constable riding
/ lol,
ward, away from the direction of Justice
Atklnson's house. They rode back some
miles IN this way toward Red Mountain.
This, say his friends, sis where little
JACK must first have suspected something
wrong"
They met on the way Hiram Wilburn,
Al Box and woman named Rosa Russ.
riding together Littlefeld greeted them
cheerily enough, crying: "Say good-bv to
I'll see them again"
| Half mile further on where the trail
rises ana falls over a knoll and is there
crossed by another trail, the evidences
we're found afterward that at least two
horses and two men had long been wait
ing. AS this little procession of three
came single file along the trail over this
knoll there was the sharp crack of a rifle.
and little Jack Littlefield without weapons
and under arrest, clutched at his breast
and fell from his horse. He ran down the
knoll and fel. beside a sapling. Two other
shots pierced his head, but he was doubt
less already dead.
Some time afterward Constable Van
Horn and Johnny Crow rode down to and
across Red Mountain Greek and there met
Walter Clark, kalf-breed, and to him
they told the story of mob Of twenty
men, who had come upon them and shot
Littlefield.
When the first shots were fired and
Littiefield sprang from his horse, dropped
my gun on him for I thought he was try.
ing TO escape" said Crow. But the
crowd ordered us to ride on and we rode
for our lives. You must have heard the
shots"
q heard three Shots" said Clark. aIs
Littlefeld deadY" he inquired
HE ran down the hill and we rode