The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-10
MYSTERIOUS RENO
MURDER

With MS skull caved In ana cneak-
bones crushed from the cruel blows
of Jagged rocks that, blood stained,
marked the scene OF terrific strug-
gle; with two gaping wounds through
his head where the deadly lead from
45-calibre revolver finished the mur-
derous work, and with his body part
ly submerged in a shallow ditch whose
waters would in any event have drown
ed him and made death doubly inevita-
BILE, while a huge rock held the man
gled head in the swirling waters, Rob-
ert j. Little was found cold in death
Saturday morning at s O'Clock when
the mournful bowling of Marjorie
Goodrich g dog brought her to face
such scene of brutal homicide as per-
haps never shocked this community in
its history. Within calling distance of
Senator Nixon g home on a crest that
gave view of all Reno-some time
not twelve hours before, assassins COM
passed the death of the mysterious man
in a manner of such revolving heart
lessness and vindictiveness that the
police and county officers cannot ex.
plain the motive that sped the hand
that crushed the man with a blow and
directed the eye that sent home the two
loo dor rpaoooprarc of Joo<L
Who Little was and what his mis-
sion in Reno was, for he was San
Francisco man, has been explained in
such way as to leave another expla-
nation necessary. Who his assailants
were and what was their motive is un-
known but there are such theories ad-
vanced as to take the crime out from
among the ranks of those battling
deeds of darkness that are linked in
hushed and fearsome accents with the
Whitechapel murders, the Smell mys-
terry and their fellow of Poe's imag-
cry, the Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Nothing is know of the crime, but
there are those who in the darkness
of night, heard in the stiffness the
scream, piercing and fear-stricken of
woman On that hill, and the deeper,
more piteous cries of a man in his
agony. There are those who heard
across the hollow, the sounds of two
shots in the night, and there are
many men in Reno who tell of such
conflicting stories said to have been
circulated by the man whose lips are
sealed in death, as to lead and point
to the theory that Little was mur-
dered by two allies in crime whose
safety and success in the prosecution
of their designs could only be assured
when Little's heart beat no more.
That Little had evidence, incrimina.
tory or scandalous, holding the honor
of man or the virtue of woman in his
keeping, has been hited. That he
was engaged in business that bor-
dered on the line where the business
reputation of men is weighed in the
balance and sold is more than be.
lieved-it is stated by those he ap.
lproached.
This much is known of Little. He
was the agent and representative of
the international Protective associa-
tion having its western executive Of
fees at S53 Phelan building, San Fran
CISCO, which is said to be law and
commercial agency having for it's OBJ
jects the seeking out of information
and the giving of it concerning the
financial and other standing of persons
who are objects of inquiry by mer-
chants, professional men and others.
He registered at the Golden Eagle ho-
tel July 6 and had conducted himself
In quiet manner, making frequent
calls on business men and professional
men, whom he tried to interest in a
scheme of forcing delinquent debtors
to settle their accounts by threatening
them with the disgrace of seeing their
names on a financial blacklist which
was to be published in conjunction with
system of dunning letters.-Reno
Journal