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NEVADA DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 9, 1857 183
rock, and severely injured. The item was published as received from a respectable gentleman of that
place, whom we believed to be disinterested. We have since received a communication on the subject,
giving a different coloring to the affair, although there is no material difference in the facts. We are
unacquainted with the parties, and have no desire to do any one injustice, but if the man who struck
McCullough done it in self-defense, as stated, it seems a little singular that he should be afraid to avow
the fact. Below we give the communication:
HUMBUG, Sept. 4, 1857.
Messrs. Editors:—It should be the duty of correspondents, to adhere strictly to the truth, and
the publicity of intentional falsehoods, should meet as it does with the stern condemnation of
all truth loving men. In your issue of last week, was a statement in relation to the origin and
final result of the altercation between Messrs. Bell and Fulton in Humbug, or North
Bloomfield, on Tuesday of last week. The affair as published is entirely misrepresented, and
the person, if an eye witness, possesses a heart callous to all sense of truthfulness. The said
Bell came into town early in the morning and was soon joined by McCullough and others, and
of course a general drunken frolic was the result. Bell and company were very quarrelsome and
caused a continual excitement throughout the day—and finally come in contact with Fulton,
whom he annoyed and insulted until forbearance ceased to be a virtue, when fight was the
result, and Bell badly whipped. This McCullough who is a powerful man, and boasts I believe
of being a shoulder-striker, seeing that Bell was getting it right and left, attempted to interfere
and did strike Fulton one or two blows when he was pulled away by disinterested parties,
which he pursued out of the house, and followed some distance, until some unknown person
through self preservation gave him a crack on the cranium. All who witnessed the affray, are
satisfied the parties got no more than they deserved. Yours, &c. JUSTITIA.
A HARD CASE.—A man named Wm. Newman, who has resided some years in Nevada, started for
the Atlantic States, with the intention of leaving on the 20th of August. He was considered as either
insane or half-witted, and the money to pay his expenses was placed in the hands of a man named
Stinchfield, who was to take charge of him. On arriving at the Bay, Stinchfield bought two tickets, one for
himself and the other for Newman, and they went on board the steamer together, Stinchfield keeping both
tickets in his pocket. They got separated while on board, however, and when the ticket man came round to
collect tickets, Newman having none, and not being able to find Stinchfield at the moment, was put off,
and the steamer left without him. He is now in San Francisco, without money or friends, and has not
sense enough to provide for himself. He is said to be respectably connected, and his parents are wealthy.
The money to send him home was raised by parties here, who know his family in the States.
BLASTING ACCIDENT.—Mr. James A. Hide was shockingly injured yesterday, by the accidental
explosion of a blast, near Hirst & Russell’s mill, on Little Deer creek. He was holding the tamping-iron
and Mr. Henry Tuttle was tamping the powder when it ignited. Hide was knocked senseless, and for a
while he was supposed to have been killed. His face and hands were severely burned, and a terrible gash
cut in his forehead, just over the right eye. He was insensible yesterday afternoon, and it is feared his eyes
are destroyed.
THE CASE OF MOORE.—The Supreme Court have refused to grant a new trial in the case of
Moore, and fixed the execution of his sentence for Friday, the 9th of October. Butler, who was convicted
in this county is also sentenced to be hung on the same day.