The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-12
SENSATIONAL
SHOOTING AT
ANDREWS,OR.
Thomas Murray, In Defend
ing Chas. Owens, Shot
d Mr.. tgbert
JEALOUSLY CAUSED TROUBLE
Wounded Man May Recover
Murray is Under Arrest
at Burns

at Burns
/ ANDREWS, Ore, Sept. Special
correspondence to the Daily Silver
State.-On Saturday night a dance
was given here which was followed
by tragedy that came near result
ing fatally to one man. The facts are
as follows: During the progress of
the dance, it is alleged, the wife of
the hotel-keeper at Andrews was in
suited by one of the men present. She
did not tell her husband until the
next morning, when he. arming him.
self with a revolver, started out to
avenge the insult. The object of his
wrath had not yet arisen, but was
sleeping in one of the rooms of the
hotel, occupying the bed with a young
man named Alberson.
The infuriated husband woke the
sleeper by punching him in the ribs
with his revolver, and then told him
ha had come to shoot him for insult
ing the lady. Alberson sprang up and
ran through the open door, and meet
ing Mr.. Thos. Murray, told him of
what was going on in the room. Muir
ray went to the room at once, pulled a
gun on the hotel-keeper and told him
to throw down his revolver or he
would be compelled to shoot The
order was reluctantly obeyed, and in
stantly after the hotel-keeper had dis
armed himself. the man he had mo-
ment before threatened to kill, drew
a knife and sprang at him.
Just what followed is pretty hard
to learn, but it is known that the
hctel-keeper started to run from the
room; and it is claimed that as he
went out of the room, Murray fred
one shot at him which struck him in
the back, passed through his body
and had its exit just below the waist,
on the left side. He fell instantly,
and it was seen that he was badly
wounded. At the present writing he
1t not expected to recover. No arrests
have yet been made.
Murray was formerly a resident of
Winnemucca, and last spring had
charge of the chaingang. In April he
was commissioned deputy sheriff by
Sheriff Lamb and had not had this ap-
pointment revoked.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT GIVEN
DEMO, Ore. Sept. Especial cor
respondence Daily Silver State.
There was a shooting affray at An
drews Sunday morning, in which
Thomas Murray shot and seriously
wounded a man by the name OF
Egbert.
1t seems from the reports brought
here that Egbert was jealous of Chas
Owens, foreman of the Alvord ranch,
and that his wrath was aroused by
Owens asking Mrs. Egbert to go to
supper with him at a dance Saturday
night. On Sunday morning about IL
o'clock, while Mr.. Owens and s. Al
berson were asleep in room adjoin-
ing Smyth's store, Egbert came in and
began beating Owens over the head
with a pistol. Alberson sprang out of
bed and ran from the room Gazing
loudly for assistance. Thos. Murray
heard him and rushed into the room,
and seeing his friend in danger of his
life, called to Egbert to throw up his
hands.
Egbert, instead of complying, point
ell his pistol at Murray, who quickly
aimed and fired his revolver at Eg-
bert, the ball striking him in the
stomach.
A doctor was summoned from Burns,
Ore, to attend the wounded man, and
the latest report is TO the effect that
he is resting easily and doing we'll.
Murray at once surrendered himself
and was taken to Burns, where he was