The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1899-05-13
THAT SHOOTING SCRAPE.


Mayhugh have no kind words to say of
him, hut when he aliglhed from the
train Monday afternoon he was cordial
ly greeted by them. One would hardly
believe that those same Indians were
unfriendly TO the Indian Agent, but
such is the case if the statements made
when apart from Mr.. Mayhugh go for
anything.
M Mayhngh WAS in the presence of
several large bucks last evening about
dusk and was heard to remark to one OF
them: Newspaper man says you
don't like me Charley; did you tell him
that?"
Nothing save the sound of the wind
whistling around the corner was heard.
The Indian failed to savvey.
DIR. Merrlweather stated that he did
the shooting as a number of people are
we'll aware Of such fact. According to
Mayhugh's statement the bullet passed
80 close to his head that the song from
made him instantly think of his wife
and children, and the feeling made him
deathly sick. Mr.. Mayhugh says the
same feeling comes to him when he
thinks about il.
TO the outside the affair is somewhat
amusing. lndian Commissioner Hol-
land from Washington, who went to the
agency recently to investigate matters,
is authority for the statement thai
while questioning one OF the Indiana re-.
garding the different agents, the buck
said
"Mr. Plumb pretty good man, not lie.
much. MIR. Haigrove, heap fine man,
no lie-at all. Mayhugh no good; lie all
time.
Many assembled this aftesndeta it1T1ihs
District Court room, IT the Court house
to listen to the proceedings in the hear
ing before United States Commissioner
Archerof Miss Anna Egan, Dir. Merri-
weather and Frank Carson, the peopl,
charged by Indian Agent Mayhngh Will
W ititItutf.
The first witness was Long John, who
is Ctlief OF Inlian Police ON the Sho-
shOne reservation. He proved to be
good witness for The defense Al Of his
details regarding the trouble subslanti
ating the facts regarding the actions OF
the defendants in accordance with theii
own statements.
From the testimony OF Long John,
the defendant s counsel on cross-exami
nation brought out the fact that on
Monday, April l7ll, a few hours prior
to the trouble in front of the school
house, Mrs. Mayhugh, wife Of the Indi-
an Agent, furnished eight OF the Indian
police with loaded revolvers and later
sent them to the neighborhood of the
schoolhouse evidently thinking there
was trouble brewing and that the poll
would afford protection for her husband.
The indians who testified Tuesday
swore positively that there were three
shots fired by DIR. Meriwether. Two
were aimed ut Meyres and one at May
hugh. Indians testified 10 the facts
when their testimony showed that they
did not personally see the shooting al
thongll At some one time during their
time on the stand, they said they saw
the doctor shoot three times. This
morning Meyers was on the witness
stand first. Mayhngh followed him.
Their testimony at times was conflicting.
Meyers occasioned considerable laugh
ter from the spectators in court.
In his tertimony Meyers stated that
"Miss Egan fooled nit de trigger all
around" When asked why he carried
pistol he remarked:
II thought she shoost iooling me 80 /
iool her myself nit little while. try
to scare her. anyhow but I fount she
ment pisness all the while. .sai
The revolver that Yeyers had on April
18th was handed him for inspection. He
tried to snap the BANNER, but il would
not work. fie said, looking at his
pistol: Sometimes pistol go, some
times no go.
Mayhugh testified that he and Meyers
we're about five feet apart and the doctor
fifteen feet further away; that Meri-
wether deliberately took two shots at
Movers, and wheeled around and shot
once at him. He said that all OF the ac-
tions OF the doctor regarding Miss Eean
/ aere still very plain in his memory. He