White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
.G|LROY MURDERED AND
BODY THROWN IN WELL
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several large grease blotches on I'll,
outer side, has everal large BLOOD
marks on the inside. 1t appear!
that if the nan had his coat on wheI
killed he must have lain on his bacl
while his blood oozed out and dowr
his back to where it sank through
the coat into the soil. A cap. gray
in color, also deeply stained with
blood, was brought in and both are
at the sheriff's office.
Several photos of the scene OF
the murder were taken and have
been finished by U. Oyama, the Jap
anese photographer. in one the tent
is shown, and two or three Others
the well. The body as it lay on the
ground, with the beard conspicuous
ly grown out, is another. After be-
ing brought to town and the face
shaven and cleaned up two other
views of the face were taken. which
are remarkable likenesses.
T. Williams was locked in the coun-
ty Jail for a few days. but convinced
the sheriff that he was innocent of
The crime and was released.
1t is generally believed that Gill
roy came over from Tonopah some
thing like three weeks ago and was
with a party of some two or three
other miners. They were looking
for work and landed soon at Riepe-
town. Gilroy is known to have
stayed around there for a few days
and it is thought he had some plans
of going back to Tonopah. How he
happened out in that part of the
country where his death occurred is
not explained No auto tracks lead
ing up to the place or off the Mid
land trail where the Horton road
turns off, which is beyond the stone
culvert owe the hurry summit, have
been found. There were tracks of
the Horton road, which road runs
between the tent and the we'll, and
only two tracks leading away from
the tent. This is on a trail leading
from the road to the tent, but OF a
line from the tent to the we'll more
tracks were found, two in number,
believed to be those of the men
when they packed the body across.
Gilroy drank occasionally, fire.
quently to excess. He is known to
have gone on periodicals, but his
friends claim that he never had
been known to be without money.
Yet il has been ascertained to
the satisfaction of the sheriff that
he was broke when he came over this
time from Tonopah, and this was
his condition when he was at Riepe-
town. So robbery has been dis
carded as the motive. 1t appears
more plausible that he was with
two companions who were drinking.
having liquor with them, and that
in a drunken quarrel the deed was
done.
While suicide is given slight con-
sideration, being all but impossi-
BILE with the position Of the coat,
with some marks of a struggle in the
tent, it is planned to pump out the
WcIl LII thC pui pOoC VI ioohihS III
a knife or razor that could have
fallen and sunk to the bottom of
The water if Gilroy leaned over the
water to slash his own throat.
Gilroy was identified by several
acquaintance after the body "a at
the morgue. He was a large man, of
Irish nationality. The toes of one
foot had been amputated about three
years ago. While drunk he had
started to walk to Hamilton in the
midst of a blizzard, freezing his feet.
He worked in the old Giroux shaft
at what is now Kimberly nineteen or
twenty years ago. He was not n man
to quarrel, being ar Irishmap of the
good natured sort and had/ lots of
friends. He is v known to have
married. This being about twenty
five years ago he is believed to have
reached the age of forty-five when
he was killed.
The funeral was attended by sew
eral friends from R~iepetown, the
body being inferred in the Ely ceme-
terry yesterday afternoon with Cath
Ollie rites conducted by the Rev.
! Uyo+bor O,Croly