The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-23

manner that left no room for doubt,
that he hoped his friend, Newton
Stanley, would be absolved of all
blame for the killing of Bonofacio
Yragui. Dan Devaney proved that
he is friend worth while-a friend
in need; man, indeed.
The defendant, Newton Stanley,
was placed upon the stand as a
witness in his own behalf and he
related to the jury all of the Incl
dents that transpired, the day of
the killing of Bonofacio Yragui, in
clear, straightforward manner,
leaving no room for any juror ques-
tioning the absolute truth of every
thing that he told.
Stanley's story, IN substance, and
practically verbatim, was to the eff
feet that on Sunday morning, Sep
tember IT, accompanied by Charlie
Rusow, he went over to the sheep
camp of Wade Snyder, which was
about a mile from the Stanley home,
to get mutton from Snyder and,
incidentally visit with Snyder, who
was a friend. He said that after
getting to the Snyder camp the NUT
ton was killed and in the general
conversation that took place between
the three Snyder made some men
tion of having seen dust over on
the ridge, three or four miles away,
evidently created by a band Of
sheep and that when Snyder made
the remark he had merely acknowl-
edged it by saying, did you?"
Rusow and he stayed at Snyder's
for dinner and along between one
and two o'clock in the afternoon
they left Snyder's place, taking with
them the mutton, and returned to
the Stanley home. Arriving there
Rusow and he put the mutton in
the cellar and then he went out
into the field, drove some of the
horses into the corral, saddled one
of them, tied bag of traps to the
saddle, went to the house and got
his .30-.30 rifle, mounted the horse
and rode down a canyon for the
purpose of setting out some traps.
In a leisurely way he proceeded
through the canyon, making set
ting of traps at intervals, finally
from the canyon out into
the open and onto a semi-plateau
and there saw, right near at hand,
a band of sheep grazing, in charge
of herder. Stanley rode over to
where the herder was and at a point
twenty-five or thirty feet away, dis
mounted, laid his rifle up against
clump of sagebrush, and then went
over to the herder whom he ad-
ressed, after salutations had been
passed, with the query. whats
the matter here? My father has
told you to stay away from here"
and to that the herder queried,
This land your father's-this his
homestead" and Stanley made an
swer, eyes and you know it is, you
son-of-a-b--w Yragui then
made a move to reach to his hip
pocket, according to Stanley, and the
latter hit him in the face with his
hand and knocked Yragui back
two or three steps. Yragui then
brought his .25-automatic into play
and with the words, 81 get you, you
son-of-a-b--," fired at Stanley
but missed the latter, who had
started backing away from Yragui
when the gun was brought to view
and who had said to Yragui, be-
fore he fired, "Don't shootw Fol-
lowing the firing of the first shot at
him, Stanley accelerated his move
ments to get possession of his rifle
and just as he had grasped it and
had it partially raised, Yragui again
fred and that time the bullet from
The automatic struck the left hand
Of Stanley and the latter, with his
run only half-raised, fired at Yra-
yui but missed him. Yragui then
began retreating movement and
again pointed the automatic at
Stanley and the latter then fired
again and Yragui fell.
Stanley, not being sure that he
had hit his opponent, who had fall
en- in a position behind some sage
)rush and out of sight of Stanley,
then mounted his horse and rode
back to the home, where he had
left Rusow. Arriving there he told
Rusow, in response to queries as to