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NEVADA JOURNAL OCTOBER 16, 1857 227
The STOMACH EXAMINED.
The medical gentlemen engaged in an examination of the stomach of the deceased, found a high
state of inflamation of the organ at its upper extremity, indicating the presence of a powerful poison. In
the opinion of the gentlemen, strychnine was the agent. The examination is not yet completed, but
sufficient facts have been evolved to leave little doubt as to the poison employed.
A DUEL.—On the morning of the 12th inst., the citizens of San Juan were aroused from their
usually quiet routine of business by the report that there was a duel to come off at 10 o’clock on the
burying ground, between George Anthony and Mike Doane. The excitement drew a crowd to the place,
and there, sure enough, were the combatants, apparently about to verify the report. But alas! for untried
valor, when the seconds commenced loading the rifles one of the principals discovered that he was not a
marksman; and the timely arrival of the peace officers upon the ground probably prevented the
amalgamation of Mr. Doane and his boots.
ATTEMPT TO POISON.—We learn that Madam Moore, the wife of the late F. V. Moore, attempted
to destroy herself on Monday last by swallowing strychnine. She was discovered in the act and a
physician being soon in attendance forced open her mouth and an emetic down her throat which
succeeded in dislodging the poison. She declares, however, her determination to end her days.
FROM THE PLAINS.—CORRECTIONS.—We some time since published an account of
depredations committed upon emigrants on the other side of the mountains, in which it was charged that
two brothers named Hawes were implicated with the Indians. Since the publication of that article a denial
of that account has been given by Mr. A. P. Hawes, one of the accused, through the columns of the Empire
County Argus. A few days ago the same gentleman called upon us very courteously and related
substantially what has already been made public concerning the Indian murders, the causes which led to
the accusations against himself and party, and the arrest of Jim Tuley, &c.
From the report of Mr. Hawes we learn that Tuley, who formerly lived at the ranch where now the
disastrous dam of A. T. Laird is located, had formerly been in his employ, but becoming dissipated he
discharged him after paying him off in gold coin which he had obtained from the Indians in pay for
blankets, &c. This gold had undoubtedly been taken from murdered emigrants, consisting of 10 guilder
pieces almost exclusively. There were many circumstances, going to show that the very Indians who
brought this money into Hawes’ Camp were accessories if not principals in the massacre of the whites
once having it in possession. Of this however he was not aware till after the money had been obtained.
Mr. Hawes says he received upwards of $800 in one night in exchange for goods. After Tuley had left on
his way in, he got drunk and committed some other acts of indiscretion, which together with the fact of
his having some of the coin, belonging it was supposed to the murdered emigrants, led to his arrest and
trial. He was cleared, however, but a party commenced shooting at him it is supposed for the purpose of
scaring him, which made him run, when a Californian knowing nothing of the affair, but supposing him to
be a fugitive from justice, shot him dead. Hawes and his party at the time of Tuley’s death were 150 miles
distant, but gathered the facts as related, from others on the spot and cognizant of them.
In relation to all the disreputable allegations against Hawes and his brother, he brands them as
untrue. He has a family consisting of a wife and two children living with the family of his brother, which
consists of a wife and three children, on a ranch near Bear River in Placer Co. He also has a father in this
State. For several years the brothers have been carrying on a legitimate business of buying stock of the
emigrants and trading with the Indians, bringing their gains into this state.