Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-25
FOUGHT TO THE DEATH
Barroom Quarrel in Reno Results in
One Dead Other Injured.


shot and killed Friday afternoon about
4:30 by Stewart Carter in the U. and
I saloon on Plaza street.
The cause of the duel which result
ed in the killink is the usual cause TO-
such scrapes-a woman.
HOFFMAN'S STATEMENT.
According to the general statement
of Proprietor Hoffman of the place,
who seemed more anxious to main
tain silence than to talk and who in
structed his bartenders to say notl-
ing to anybody, it appears that Carter,
who is a bartender at the and J..
acted in self-defense and that Hamp-
ton was the agressor throughout.
From all that can be learned, 1t
seems that Hampton, Lowry and tie
woman, who calls herself Mrs. HamD-
ton, were out yesterday afternoon IN
a little time,'' and that during the
course of the afternoon they entered
the L and I saloon and went into the
private boxes at the rear.
Here it is claimed that Hampt n
grew noisy and insisted that the worl-
an leave the place. She declined to do
so, and according to the statements
made to the authorities, Hampton
grew abusive and is said to have
treated the woman with violence.
Carter interfered and a fist fight re-
suited, during which Carter, who was
sober, got the best of Hampton, who
was not.
DUEL TO THE DEATH.
Hampton left in rage and declared
he was going after his gun.
Carter supplied himself with PTS
tol from the drawer back. Of the bar
and was standing behind the counter
when Hampton, in a rage, entered BY
the back door. f1ourishing a gun.
Without preliminaries the men got to
work. Carter had iye-shooter or
41-calibre and Hampton had six
shooter of 3S-calibre. When Hamp-
ton Law On the floor with the blood
gushing from a wound in his head ana
two other bullets in his body Carter
was still erect, but his gun as well as
that Of Hampton was empty.
Carter suffered superficial wound
in the leg and was placed under arr ,'t
by the police, who arrived after the
smoke had cleared away.
DEAD MAN WELL KNOWN.
Hampton was well known about
town. He was a gambler and the
former owner of the Del Paso saloon.
He was generally reputed to be a man
of quiet habits, but quick tempered
when he had been drinking.
A superficial examination was ma le
of the body of Hampton after it hal
been removed to the morgue. There
it was found that the bullet had takc l
effect in the left thigh, one in the
neck and another in the ear. This
last, however, is not certain as it is
regarded as possible that the shot II
the neck penetrated to the ear an i
that only two shots landed.
SALOON WRECKED. 49,.
The inside of the saloon looked as
if regiment of Japs after an army Ut
Russians had been there. The plas-
ter in the ceiling is plowed up; the
doors are punctured and there are bui-
lets in almost every corner, except
those that Hampton carried when his
body was removed to the morgue, ami
the one that the doctors extracted
from Carter's ankle as he sat noncha-
lantly smoking cigar after the trag.
edy. .,...
Carter's statement to the coroner
and police is simple, and is in the
main the same as that told by the
woman and the other witnesses. Ca
ter, however is very definite in his
declaration that he attacked Hampton
only after the latter had struck the
woman. -- .....
AS the dead body of Hampton lay
On the floor in pool of blood in tn.
center of the saloon and Carters fo,;
wound was being attended to by sew
eral bystanders, the mistress of tn :
dead man. Della Smith, a small slen /.
der woman of about 80 years of aga
was Historically walking the floor as
several friends were endeavoring t,
quiet her.-JOurnal. ....
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