White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-18

he opened the door and faced her in
person.
They had but a few words when
she FASTENED up the stairs and closed
the door behind her in a room which
she entered to get away from him.
Etchebarren probably was in the
room. Iuzargarat had followed her
to the door and was trying to force
an entrance or making a threatening
racket in the hallway. She asked
Etchebarren TO go for the sheriff.
Etchebarren passed into the hall In
attempting to do as bidden and there
faced Iuzargarat down the hallway.
Another Basque, named Yzidro Urri-
zola, was in the hall Etchebarren
faced Iuzargarat and Urrizola was
behind the former Iuzrgarat ap-
preached them rapidly and meeting
Etchebarren first drew gun and
fired. Etchebarren was shot through
the neck.
Hearing the shot the woman came
out CT the room and attempted to
place her open hands on Iuzargarat's
arms Just how she was shot is not
clear, but she must have tried TO turn
to fee as he leveled the gun at her,
for she was shot twice in the back,
both times at close range. for her
dress was powder burned The as
sailant probably held her by the arm.
Ono shot entered below the right
shoulder, passed through the top of
her right lung and came out of her
breast. The other entered at the left
of her spine and is imbedded. II is
thought to be close to the spine but
To not have inflicted a fatal injury,
though infection may cause death.
Her arm is In paralyzed condition.
She fell as she was shot and was
picked up by four men and taken to
the hospital In an ambulance. The
men removing her We're Earl Marri-
oft. City Marshal George w. Jackson,
Dolph Lundgren and one other whose
name was not obtained.
Urrizola dueked down close TO the
floor and thinks that saved him from
stopping one OF the bullets. though
no shot was fired at him.
After shooting the woman Iuzar-
CARAT ran TO the rear end of the hall
way and entered the toilet. locking
the door behind him. He spilled a
box of cartridges on the floor end
these were gathered up and are in
the keeping of District Attorney Ed
wards. The Basque raised the toilet
window and climbed down or a
porch. from which he jumped 20 the
ground.
In the meantime Etchebarren. with
a bullet hole through his neck. was
making his getaway. He ran down
the front stairway into Aultman
street. Thence he ran across an open
space northeasterly and then west
erly for two blocks up an alley. Here
he came to the rear door of the
Southern Club, tried to open the door
and made a racket. thus attracting
the attention OF T.. Chrisman, one of
the proprietors and friend of the
wounded Basque. Chrisman thought
II was Charley Wong. a Chinaman
who comes TO the back door every
night to do some janitor work there.
The door is held shut by bar across
II. Instead of IL being the Chinaman
the bleeding BASQUE fell into Chris
mans arms as he opened the door.
Then Etchebarren collapsed. Chris
man rang central and told the oper-
ator to get DR.. Cook and Sheriff
Nicholson as quickly as possible.
Both were there In few minutes and
Etchebarren was removed to the hos
pital.
While this was going on Iuzargarat
was making a herculean but futile
effort to stage a getaway. He had
reckoned without the snowstorm and
the great blanket that has blockaded
the country for three weeks.
Mrs. o. NJ. Wallace Jr. heard two
explosions like gunshot reports back
of her house, near tho high line of
the railway She called Mr.. Wallace
and the latter sent out an alarm.
They thought man had fallen into =
shaft or pit that Is in that vicinity.
Two men soon responded and they
found Iuzargarat lying in the snow.
He was picked up and soon conveyed
to the hospital
1t appeared that he had soon learn
ed the futility OF breasting the
mighty snow blanket, sinking into II
above his knees, and decided to use
his gun some more to solve the prob
lem. He fired once into his head.
back of his right ear. and again into
his abdomen or above II. This bull
let Is thought to have lodged close to
his spine. The location OF the other
Is not known for certain but is sup
posed to be In his brain Either or
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