White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-14
JESSE COvERLY SHOT DEAD;
WOMAN SAVED FROM SUICIDE

Jesse B. Coyerly was shot and In
stantly killed Friday evening by
woman who has been passing as his
wife but whose name Is not known
here. The woman then turned the
gun on herself and was about TO fire
when the weapon was wrested from
her hands by Samuel Harlow.
The shooting occurred in the home
of Mrs Frank Buster, who also was
present. but neither she nor Harlow
saw the actual shooting of Coyerly.
The house belongs 10 Mrs. Jane
Metzger. 1t is located on the back
ef a lot ON the south side OF Camp
Ton street, few doors east of Fifth.
The house contains three rooms. first
a sitting room containing some furni-
ture, the second with a single and
double bed and some chairs and the
third at the back containing a bed
IN the back corner TO the southwest.
Coverly and the woman were lying
On this bed and were quarreling
about going TO their home. He used
some profane language when she
urged him to go home, but their talk
was not loud.
Harlow sat in the middle room in
full view of the bed and the couple
and the electric lights in both rooms
were burning. it being $40 o'clock.
Mrs. Harlow lay on a bed west OF
the door, so that she could not Gee
the couple
At n moment when Harlow hap
pened TO not be looking at the cou-
ple the shot was fired. Harlow In
stantly grappled with the woman and
took the gun out OF her hands when
she was in the act of turning the
muzzle to her head.
Mrs. Buster must have mixed In
the fray at the same time. for few
minutes later when she rushed to the
door Of Sheriff Nicholson, who lives
Iiiagonally across the street intersec-
ton in the east side of the Riehmar
apartment house, her dress was srot-
ted with blood
The sheriff found the man TO be
lead. hfr pulse stu his face oloody,
the Coverly woman hugging and car
ressing the corpse and her sleeves
covered with blood. She and Mrs.
Buster were in Mysteries and talking
with little conference The gist of
what they were saying was Mrs. Gov
erly claiming that he tried to shoot
her and she struck his hand. SO that
he shot himself. and Mrs Buster
eounterlng by telling the woman she
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coverly fell on her face on the floor
number of times. screaming. moan
ing and continuing her talk that he
shot himself.
In a short time DIR. W. ". Cook,
Coroner Mcdonald and District At
torney H. W Edwards arrived The
woman kept up the same line OF talk
and actions in their presence. Once
after Mrs coverly had shrieked that
he shot himself Mrs. Buster said to
her In the presence of the officials
You shot him and You know you
did"
The Coverly woman was question
ID closely at the time. She said shc
was glad CovCrly was dead. and when
asked why. she said TO keep him
from another woman. She said that
II she had had IA gun she woulc have
killed him Christmas night, still In
sisting that he had shot himself
When asked why she wanted to kill
him before she refused to reply. She
said she had four children and that
Coverly was not the mans true name.
Asked for his name she said he had
wife living and on that account
sho would not tell his name.
Examination at the time showed
merely that the bullet had entered
the left side of the upper liD, cne