Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1922-05-03
|. BRAINARD HELD
FOR BROTHERS.
MURDER

Lyon county officials. including the
offices of the Sheriff. District Attor-
ney. Chief of Police OF Ycrington and
horde of volunteer detectives. arc cx-
hausting every resource in an effort
to ascertain the details of the murder
OF w. Fl. Brainard. who was shot ii,
the back at his ranch home. near Yer
ington. some time last Friday night
Harry Brainard. brother of the mur-
dcrcd man. and who was with his
brother on the ranch Friday night.
was placed under arrest by deputy
sheriff. George Ambrose. and is now
held in the county jail. on the recon-
'mendation of the coroncr's jury. which
was impannelled by Judge blanchard
Saturday.
Harry Brainard persstently main
tains that he is innocent, in spite OF
the strong circumstantial evidence
pointing to his guilt.
the tragedy Saturday morning by Gus
Williams. neighbor OF the Brainards.
who had been notified by Harry.
George Ambrose Immediately left for
the ranch and gathered sufficient evi-
dence TO justify the arrest of Harry
Brainard The dead man was found
lying on bed and tracks plainly
showed that he had been dragged
into the cabin from the yard. \ SO
Galore pistol. which corresponds TO
the size OF the wound. was found near
mts ownership of the gun, which con
tancd one loaded she'll one empty
chamber. and four empty shells. A
suit of clothes belonging to Harry
Brainard was found 100 yards from
the house and footprints corresponding
to those Of the accused man. were
traced from, the house to the point
where the clothes were found.
Placed on the witness stand at the
inquest Brainard stated that he and
his brother had drunk considerable
Bill had told him not to drink any
more as j, would make him crazy
again He stated that he was awak-
encd early in the morning by a dog,
and going to the door. saw his brother
lying in the yard. and that two men
were in the yard, not far from the
house. lie followed the men. he said,
but they escaped in an automobile
according to his story he thought
the men were union men who had
threatened to kill him in San Fran
cisco, and had killed the wrong man.
John Gallagher, another neighbor.
heard a number of shots at about
s o'clock the previous evening. DR..
G. E. Leavitt examined the body and
stated that death had occurred ten or
twelve hours before.
Witnesses at the inquest were
DR.. Lcavitt, Gus Williams, Dan Per-
kins. John Gallagher and Chief OF
Police James Kelly On the jury were
A. ]. Jackson, Fred Hastings, +. n.
Markwell, Matt Penrose. Dennis
Lynch.
They found that w. n. Brainard
had come to his death from gun
shot wound inflicted by unknown per-
sons. and recommended that Harry
Brainard be held for further invcsti-
CATION.
The funeral is being held today from
the Phipps undertaking parlors.
Brainard Brothers have conducted a
hatchery business near Ierington for
the past three years. coming here
from Smith Valley. About year
ago Harry sold his interest to Bill
and went to San Francisco, where he
was employed at the Union Iron
works. He became involved i'll labor
troubles. and returned TO Ierington on
May 18th and has been living at the
hatchery since that time. He has
twice been in an insane asylum. The
authorities have located sister. Mrs
Emma Salter. i'll Troy. New York.
and brother at Glendale California