Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-29
JOE carroll MEETS
AN AWFUL DEATH
Shot in the Back by Red-Light
Woman and Dies Almost
Instantly

b ."s F.. a .tH..E-
Shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday night
the people in the Elk saloon heard q
pistol shot and n few moments after.
ward Joseph D, Carroll staggered into
the barroom and fell by the stove.
Blood WAS gushing from his mouth as
he entered the door md the bartender
on duty. went TO him and, thinking
Carroll had,a hemorrhagc, asked him
what: was the matter. He replied
family II am shot" and Died.
As neartasrwe We're able 10 learn the
particulars of the shooting are about rs
follows:
About - minutes before the shot was
fired Il woman entered the Elk wine
room and rang the bell. The bartender
answered the bell and took the wOman's T.
orler. She also told him that she
wished to see Mr.. Carroll. The bar
tender delivered the message and Mr..
Carroll went back to the wine room.
This was the last seen of him until he
staggered into the bar room MS stated
above. What took place in the room or
whether ID not there was Il quarrel, we
were unable to learn. No one that we
could find knew anything about it.
Neither could we learn how long they
remained in the room. The pistol shot
was the only thing heard.
The shot was fired from the outside
near the corne of the wine room and
the alley running back of the Engler
IN, An. TI Ill
turned TO leave the woman as the bullet
entered his back, just below the left
shoulder blade and passed through the
body, lodging under the skin nearly
over the heart. After he WAS shot,
Carroll walked about 10 or 80 feet
opened an outside screen door and the
inner door of the bar room before he
fell. The bullet evidently pierced his
lungs ms he blcd c~opiously from the
mouth.
After the shooting, the woman
entered the gambling room with the
pistol in her hand and offered it TO
several with the muzzle toward them.
She finally stuck 1t toward Luther
r Butler, hut seeing that he did not like
its looks. she turned it around and he
then took it. She thcn asked for an
officer. Deputy Sheriff Hardin was the
first officer 10 arrive and he took her to
Ill. On the way, the only thing she
= lid was to ask if Carroll wos dead.
On being told that he was. she made nc
reply. The reporter called at the jail
fINia' FnIl.pnAn IA infncuin,, l,nr ,,,l ,,ng
!. told by;Jailer Gilmore that she WAS then
consulting an attorney.
The woman has been II member of the
= red light district for over Il year ani
goes by the name of Birdie DeRucey
She is about % years of age. Abou
i 4:30 Tuesday afternoon she bought al
Iv1r. Johnson 3S calibro pistol at tn
Smith Company's store, saying that sh
wanted it because she was afraid l.
come up town at night.
As soon rs possible after the shooting
DR.. Hood arrived and pronounce,
Carroll dead. He was her put into tn
Hot Springs bus and taken to the Rich
wood hospital where he was washed an
this morning his remains were taken t
the morgue.
A mother. Mrs. Dusang of Buttl
10 Mountain, II wife and daughter surviv
% him. The mother arrived from Blttl
q Mountain this morning.
Is Coroner Bruce summoned a iury All
II the inquest WAS held this afternoon.
II Mr.. CAROLS remains will be taken /
ii Battle Mountain for burial.
s. Sincothc above was put in tpye, "
have Learned that the woman says I'll
shooting wa accidental. She has eli
70 ploycd Attorney GUlncy to dsfenl her
u Aswe are unable to- learn the cause
" the killing. We withhold any commen
W The woman is in tho hands Of tho Ia
u and will be dealt with by the court,
u Tho whole clse will come out at tn
70 trial and people will then be able
:" judge both sides.