White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-14

the fellow pulling frantically at the
wrong trigger meanwhile, and
swung the man around in front OF
him. Brown caught sight of the
highwayman as he came into the
light of TIE coach lamp, and lean
ing over the box gave him the cou
tents of his shotgun, Kidding him
with buckshot. The rohber who
had grasped Blair by the coat col
lar, relaxed his hold and fell to the
ground. AS Brown put his foot
on the wheel to alight the man in
the rear of the stage shot him
through the leg, infiicting a evere
wound. Both Brown and Blair re
turned the fire, when the highway
mar took to his heels and escaped
in the darkness. The third man
had not put in an appearance dur
ing the affray and IT. was supposed
that he was holding the horses. The
tracks where they rode of in the
s%agebrush were found the next
morning.
The fettered blacksmith and
rancher we're unbound end an in
vestigation as to the amount OF
damage sustained ensued. Jack
Perry had kept perfect control of
his team during the fighting, and
the two passengers, Professor Price
and j. NJ. Haskell, had remained
quiet spectators inside the stage.
A light was procured and the
wounded road agent taken into the
station house, when it was found
that he had received nine buckshot
in the back, just above the hip. He
was in great agony and begged to be
killed. The wound Brown received
was next examined and a very pain
full and ugly wound was discovered
in the calf of his leg. Thc ball had
entered the fleshy part OK TIE limb,
grazing the bone and penetrating
through 10 the other side. The
party remained at the station until
daylight, when the wouI ded men
were placed on the return stage
and in company with Blair and
Perry returned to Eureka On the
road the wounded robber was very
r%eticent, obstinataely refusing ID
give any information in regard to
his companions that would lead to
their Identification. His only re-
mark was that if they were as old
hands at the business as himself
the situation would have been diff
ferent, and Blair and Brown would
have been lying on their hacks in
stead. He also informed Blair that
this was tho second occasion on
which they had exchanged shots,
About 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon, as the stage neared Pages
ranch, it was found that he was
in a dying condition. In reply to
a question from Blair he gasped
that his name was Jack Davis and
then breatheG his last.
On the arrival of the stage at
Eureka at z O'Clock last evening
the news spread rapidly and a vast
crowd gathered at the coach. The
body was taken to Schwamb's un
dertaking rooms, and as soon as his
face was uncovered he was recog-
niZed by a half dozen men as a
noted convict and celebrated road
agent. His name is John Davis.
In the early history of the state,
and during the first rush to the
Comstock he came to Virginia City
from Sierra county. California. He
was a man of fine appearance. large
stature, and was well educated and
intelligent. He held the position
of mining recorder of the Flowery
district for some time and accumu-
lated quite a sum of money, which
he afterward gambled away. From
that time UT till 1869 he was one
of the leading spirits in the many
stage robberies that happened in
the vicinity of Virginia and Carson
cities. During his residence in Vir.
ginia City he leased a small mill
in Six Mile canyon, and the plum
dered bullion obtained from the
many daring stage robberies on the
Geiger grade were taken to the
mill and remelted by the gang,
after keeping the stamps running
on barren quartz, would produce
the stolen bullion and claim it was
the product of the reduction works.
There was always rich returns
from that mill very soon after n
successful stage robbery. 1t was
generally known among the officers
that he participated in these ex-
ploits, but he was shrewd enough
coast was electrified by one of the
boldest robberies in The annals Of