White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
COvERLY AND FRIENDS
ROB ELY mPUNCHB0AROS
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He also went to the De Luxe service
station.
Mr.. Carpenter then removed his
punchboard from the place and put
it in safe keeping until its owner
would come to town. He came about
December 4. As he entered the door
Mr.. Carpenter started to tell him,
when the travelling mar interrupted
him with:
''Oh, l know all about it. They
have robbed us all over the state; at
all the main line towns, Elko, Win
nemucca and at Tonopah."
He related that there was a gang
going from place to place after the
punchboards we're sold and that one
of the gang was a m
The Hutchings woman worked dur
ing their stay here as q waitress at
the Crystal cafe. She took lunches
to their rooms for Hutehings, nut he
cursed and abused her repeatedly,
not being satisfied with the food she
brought or else it was a quarrel over
another woman. He refused as many
as three or four lunches the same
evening. They left November 10 and
said they were going to Tonopah for
Thanksgiving.
Buster and his wife appeared to
be much attached to each other.
They said they were going to return
to Las Vegas. City Marshal Jackson
ordered Buster to leave town and he
left a few days before the shooting.
The reason for the order was that he
was a gambler Of suspicious actions
and with no visible means of support.
Mrs. Buster is still here and is
under surveillance as a witness in
the Coverly murder case. She dresses
stylishly and makes an attractive APP
p~earance in public.
The night of the shooting, in the
presence of the officers, when she and
the Coverly woman were arguing
about who did the shooting and why
it was done, the Coverly woman re-
ferred to the other woman in the case
and said:
You know who she is"
Among other things found by Sher-
if Nicholson in the Buster house,
where the shooting of Coverly occur
red. was a deck of marked cards. The
markings on the back are fine and
not easily detected, but are untnis-
taxable on close scrutiny. The sher-
if has been busy during the week and
says he has not had time to figure
out all the markings but that he has
done so for a part of them.
They were in the house for a pur-
pose, in the opinion of the sheriff,
and that is believed to let somebody
in on a game. No victims have been
reported and the killing may have
come too soon to permit OF such oc-
currence.
Buster at some time during his So
journ here tried to SIT in a poker
game at the Capitol but was told he
could not have a hand. He is said
to have tried to wiring in a cold deck,
which may have been the same or
like the one held by the sheriff.
The Coverly or Williams m
was bound over to the district court
Wednesday without bail by Justice
OF the Peace Mcdonald to answer a
charge OF murder in the first degree.
At her preliminary hearing she en-
tered no plea.
The witnesses were DIR. w. w. Cock
and Samuel Harlow. Their evidence
was the anne as at the inquest, which
was published in the News last Sum
day.
Mrs. Williams was given an oppor-
tunity to testify but in a condition Of
nervousness and agitation she gasped
that she had nothing to say.
Mrs. Williams and Coverly are un-
derstood to have come recently from
Baker. She drank a great deal and
her quarrels with Coverly occurred
mostly when she was intoxicated.
She would work three or four days
at the laundry and then go on a
spree. Reports of her being beaten
by Coverly are not credited. She
never admitted that her black cyes
were inflicted by him. She claimed
at the time that one was the result
of being hurt on the door of an auto
mobile and another from striking the
corner OF a table. One OF their worst
quarrels was Christmas day. when
she was drinking heavily.
She says now that among her chill
dren is n married daughter and
another a grown young man. She
claims to be tho mother OF four chill
dren.