Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-09

 DEVELOPMENTS In Connection With Re-
 cent Shooting. Wounded Man Gives False Testi- mOny While He Is Supposed
 To Be Dying.

One night about a week or ten days
 ago young man was shot by an old
 man by the name of Chris Huseman,
 the old man doing terrible execution
 with shot gun. The young man was
 taken to the county hospital where
 he gave his name as Mark Sullivan.
 Upon examining his wounds it was
 discovered that his eyes had been shot
 all to pieces and his other injuries in-
 dicated to the physicians that he
 could not live and District Attorney
 E. s. Clark was summoned and a
 statement was taken from the wound
 ed man, the doctors informing him
 that be could not live and that they
 wanted the exact circumstances of the
 tragedy. He then stated that his
 name was Mark Sullivan; he had just
 arrived from Colorado; that his
 mother lived in Kansas City; that he
 was going into the little shed to sleep
 hCh hC was COh- fronted by the old man who shot him.
 He also presented an Eagles card
 bearing the name of Mark Sullivan from aerie No. 295, Goldheld, Colo rado. All this evidence looked very good and was not doubted by the off cers. The aerie of Eagles of Goldfeld were telegraphed to for aid for the young man and word was received that Mark Sullivan had been expelled from the order for cause. This began to look suspicious and the officers be- gan to make some further investiga- tion when surprises met them on every hand. About this time a young fellow showed up at the hospital and offered to assist in caring for the wounded man saying he was friend of his. It soon developed that the strangers name was Mark Sullivan and the in- jured mans name was W. J. O'Brien, and that in place of his mother living in Kansas City she lived in Pueblo, Colorado.
 Further investigation proved that O'Brien, who was less than 2 years of age, had been an inmate of the Colo rado reform school at Buena Vista, had been out on parole and jumped his parole sometime ago, leaving Colo rado and going to Tombstone, Bisbee and other places in the southern part of Arizona, where he had been work ing since, until coming to Prescott.
 While in Bisbee the officers got track that O'Brien was in the camp which fact became known to O'Brien. He was chumming with Mark Sulli- van, who had left Colorado under sus- picion of having been connected with a plot which resulted in a mine sup being pushed off of cage down a shaft and killed. The two men changed names and clothing and left Bisbee coming to this place.
 They had been joined by two other men one of whom was known as O'Herne while the other mans name | is not known.
 On the night of the shooting these men were preparing to leave Prescott | in a refrigerator car. Three of them | had gotten inside the car and O'Brien | was left outside to fasten the car door | to throw off any suspicion of the train | crew. It was the intention of those inside to open the top ventilator from the inside and let O'Brien in that | way. In order to guard against pos sibility of being fastened in they | wanted to get piece of wire to make l a hook so they could reach down and | pull the pin that fastened the door. O'Brien had seen the little shack | where Huseman lived and saw a lot of | wire there so went down to the place | to get some wire and while there was shot.
 The other fellows hearing the shot | and O'Brien not coming back they | came out and the next morning found | put what had happened and all of l them but Sullivan left town post haste and have never been heard of since. Sullivan, However, stayed with his friend, and the next night. offered his assistance to take care of his partner.
 The officers in Colorado informed the sheriff's office that they would let the matter of O'Brien drop as the poor fellow has lost both his eyes and will only be public charge the remain fer of his life.
 The most remarkable thing of all vas that even in the face of death D. 'Brien never weakened and revealed his identity nor betrayed his friends, and Sullivan displayed real friendship md some excellent qualities in stay Ing by his friend in time of trouble.