White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-25
HARLOW SAW SHOTH|REO
BY RS VILLA MS
continued from Page One.)

continued fom rage One.1
A. eQuarreling in a way about
family troubles
q. eDid she appear very angry?'
A. No"
n. What did she say?"
A. She said, i ought to have
Killed you long before And he says.
Why don't you do it,
o.. What did she say to that?"
A. Il could not say"
o.. Mrs. Buster, when she got
aver 10 the sherif's home, had some
blood on her. How did she get
that?'
A. She ran and grabbed Mrs.
coyerly. | guess that Is where she
oot IL. because Mrs. Coverly was COW
cred with blood. Then Mrs. Buster
ran right out again to the sheriff's
after | went to town for the Doctor"
O.. Did you hear her say IN
thing to this effect, I'll shoot you'?"
A.: Il don't know. but she said
something like that"
O.: From where you stood could
YOU see which hand vas pointed to-
ward him2
A. Yes. she had the gun in her
right hand"
O.: What did you do?"
A: 4 grabbed the gun and TOOK
il away from her"
O.: After the statement, I ought
TO have killed you long before, how
long after that was the shot fred?'
A.: Very quickly after. l do
not know tho exact Time. | didn't
think about it and did not know she
had the gun at the time"
O.: After the shooting you went
over and grabbed herr"
A.: Eyes. Then I raised MIN up
and he was dying and | ran and got
a Doctor
@: You raised him up from the
bed?"
A.: Yes"
O. He was on the bed when he
was shot"
A.: Yes. lie was lying on tho
bed with his feet on the floor"
This was not given under oath bur
was the story of Harlow twenty min
utes after the shooting.
Another feature of the case re-
ceiving soaut notice at the trial but
which must have figured In the YER
dict was the character OF the gun.
It Is a hammerless double-action
LIVER Johnson 3s-ealiber. with a
safety in the middle OF the trigger,
and could not have been discharged
by accident In the manner claimed
by the Williams woman. The firing
trigger Is long and broad and the
safety trigger extends about two
thirds of the distance from the un-
derside OF the gun to the point OF
the main one. The gun cannot be
discharged by pulling on the main
trigger at one side or by pulling OF
the safety and one side of the main
one. The only way TO discharge II is
TO extend the finger through to both
sides of the firing trigger and pull
on both together with the safety.
Then there are three movements to
the cylinder in the process of firing.
The first pull on the two triggers and
the cylinder revolves slightly. the
pull continued and IL revolves again
a greater distance and stops where
the loaded chamber Is not quite In
line with tho barrel; then the shoot
must give thought TO the final
muscular exertion when the chamber
lines up with the barrel the hammer
inside rises and drops on the firing
pin and the gun discharges. The
movement OF the main trigger Itself
preeludes a possibility of an accident
of the kind claimed. The first pull
the trigger, corresponding to the
irst nov of the cylinder. Is about
ihree-sixteenths OF an inch. The sec
and one Is about half an inch. this
corresponding to the second move
n the cylinder, and the third is about
one-eighth of an inch, corresponding
10 the final move of the trigger, the
after then coming hard against the
back OF the guard. Besides, the trig
yer has what Is known as a creep
Us this description sig
lihes, or in reality two creep move