The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
MINER slain
IN LOCAL
HOLD-UP
VICTIM OF ATTEMPTED ROB-
Berry DIES FROM bull
LET WOUNDS

who returned here yesterday from
Tonopah, was shot and killed short
ly after l o'clock this morning in a
hold-up at the side of the Athletic
club building, on the corner OF
Main and Myers streets, and James
Hughes, better known as Pat"
Hughes, a local young man with a
police record, is in Jail, suspected
of the murder.
Graf was shot three times
through the body when he attempt
ed to grab the gun the hold-up was
pointing at him, and his heart was
but family pulsing when Night
Officer Benton arrived at the scene
a few moments after the shooting.
The authorities believe there is
no doubt as to the guilt of Hughes
and state that the evidence against
him in their possession is strong.
Graf was about 25 years Of age
and had worked in Goldfield for a
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where he is supposed to have worked
last for the Belmont company.
He was born in Eichberg, Switzer-
land, and it is believed that his
mother is there.
According to police officials and
others Hughes, Graf and Casper
Steiner, a local miner, were to-
gether in saloons during the night.
They are said to have gone from
the Goldfield Club saloon on Crook
street and bartenders state that
Graf, in the presence of Hughes
repeatedly displayed a considerable
sum of money. About 1886 was
found in Crafts clothes.
Graf and Steiner, both intoxicat-
ed to the extent that they stagger-
ed, according to Nels Thylander,
the bartender in the Club saloon at
the time, left there together short
ly after 1 o'clock. Hughes, who
had been in the saloon with them,
left a few minutes later and the
killing occurred within a short
time.
Graf and Steiner proceeded down
Main street toward the red-light
district, for which they were bound,
and it is believed by the authorities
that Hughes went along the alley
between Main and Columbia and in
tercepted them at the corner of the
Athletic club building.
The hold-up appeared with a
gun, according to Steiner, and or
dered the men off the sidewalk and
out of the light. The two men,
with the hold-up keeping them COW
cred with the gun, went into the
shadow of the stairway that is on
the outside of the building, at the
north side. 1t was there, in the
was shot to death when he attempt
ed to grab the holdup's gun.
Steiner states that the hold-up
was masked with a white handker-
chief tied over the lower part of his
face.
According to George Gordon. who
lives nearby, and others in the
neighborhood,. three shots were
fired. This is believed to be the
number of times the gun was dis
charged, all the bullets taking eff
feet. There were three entrance
holes found in Crafts body and two
exit holes. One bullet passed
through the body and entered the
wall of the building, penetrating
deeply. Two bullets entered the
left side and one near the center
of the chest, on the right side and
higher than the other two.
After shooting Graf the hold-ul
ran EAST on Myers street and his
gun was found in a vacant lot On
the opposite corner on myers,
where he evidently had hurled it
as he fled. The gun was found this
morning. About it the authorities
are reticent. but it is believed to
have been a 38-caliber revolver.
Graf is said to have been a
young man and unmarried.
Hughes is said by the authorities
to be uncommunicative and it is
believed by them, from past exper-
fences they have had with him, that
he will remain so. Hughes is "a
years of age and returned here re-
Gently after having been rejected
by the army examiner at San Fran
CISCO
District Attorney Foley, who was