The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-21
JUSTICE WILL SIT
W|THEV SCALES
Two Men Will Be Placed on Trial
To Answer Charges Of Murder
and the Morbidly Curious
May Have Thrills

During a brief session of court
yesterday afternoon Judge Callahan
advised the members of the local
bar that the civil and criminal
calendar would be called next Sat-
urday, October 90, and that he
would call jury in session Tues
day, November Ia.
At the forthcoming court ses-
sion several very important cases
will come up for trial, among them
the case of John E. Harris, who will
be brought before the bar Of JUS
tice to make answer to the charge
of having murdered Claude Silvers,
in the Central Bar, at little after
8 o'clock at night, Friday, August
18, by shooting his cictim with
3O-40 army carbine rifle.
Bad blood, it is said, had existed
between Harris and Silvers for
some prior to the shooting, their
grievances having originated with
some misunderstanding connected
with the Ten-Mile mining property,
in which both had been interested.
The evening of the tragedy it is
told that Harris and Silvers had
been involved in a melee, prior to
the killing, which was the culmina-
ton of an angrey conversation in
the course of which Harris had
called Silvers some provocative
names and the latter had retaliated
by knocking Harris down.
Following that engagement, in
which Harris had gotten the worst
of it, 1t is said that Harris left
the Central bar and went home,
where he secured the carbine, re-
turned to the bar and shot Silvers
without warning, while the latter
was engaged in conversation with
H. H. Sheldon and Jack Shumate.
At the time Of his arrest by tn,
nightwatchman, Perry Boyd, Harris
made not the slightest resistance
and it was said, at the time, tina,
Harris told Boyd, in response tt
the question Of why he had killed
Silvers, that he was the victim OF
a frame-up and that he had to get
his man before others got him.
Pat McCarren, the well knowr
lawyer of Reno, has been engaged
to make the defense for John E
Harris and 1t is quite probable that
evidence that was not introduced
at the time Of the preliminary hear
ing will be forthcoming that vii
tend to convince the jury thai
Harris was fully justified in taking
Silvers' life, as he has sedulousl,
refrained from doing any talking
since his incarceration in Jail ant
it is possible that when he relates
all of the circumstances involve,
in the shooting, it will be mad.
clear that the killing was in pro
lection of his own life.
Another murder trial, in which
there will be no little interest mani
tested, will be that of Newtor
Stanley, Jr., young homesteade,
residing in the vicinity Of Alkal
canyon, in the extreme northwest
ern part Of the county, sixty mile
from a postoffice, who will be com
PEELED to face jury of his peers
and make defense to the charg,
of having murdered Bonofacio Yra
gui, young Basque sheepherder
on the afternoon Of Sunday, Sep
tember II.
From circumstances that are al
legged to have occurred on the da!
of the tragedy it appears tha'
Yragui, herding band Of sheep
had permitted the sheep to grazs
on or near lands homesteaded b.
Stanley, thus committing trespas'
that was highly aggravating to the