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NEVADA DEMOCRAT DECEMBER 9 & 16, 1857 259
killed instantly. She was a beautiful and intelligent girl of ten summers, and it was a terrible
blow to the already worse than widowed mother. Mr. Craig was advised of the death of his
child, and came on to Chambersburg with his father to take the body to Pittsburgh for
interment. He asked, through his father, for permission to see his wife and children, but was
forbidden by Mr. McKibben and his sons to come to the house at the peril of his life, though
they allowed his three remaining children to be taken to a neighboring house to spend an hour
with him. It was truly a sad time, for his youngest two had never heard his name since they
were old enough to know what it is to love and be loved, and they parted with him without
knowing that they had been with their father. As great fears were entertained that the sons of
Mr. McKibben would take Mr. Craig’s life, should they meet at the depot where the body of
the child was put upon the cars, Mr. Craig took a private conveyance to Shippensburg the
evening before, and there took the cars and met his father, who had the body in charge.. .
The little boy who had accidentally killed his sister was permitted to accompany his
grandfather and father with the body of his sister to Pittsburgh, under the solemn promise of
the grandfather that he should not be detained beyond a given time. According to promise, the
boy was brought back to this place by his father on Tuesday last. The boy went out to his
mother, and the other children were sent into Craig’s hotel, and permitted to stay with him until
he should leave in the return train for Harrisburg. In the mean time, the Hon. Jos. McKibben,
from California, who happened to be on a visit to his sisters here, and Robert P. McKibben,
Esq., a young man of 23 years, who resides at the mansion near the town, and is a student at
law, learned of Mr. Craig’s arrival in town. They resolved that the wrongs of their blighted
sister should be avenged, and armed themselves with a revolver each. They were, however,
dissuaded from their purpose by their father, and detained, as they all supposed, until the train
left town. Mistaking the whistle of the locomotive, when the engineer was bringing it out of
the shop to attach the train, for the signal of departure, they walked into town (not over a
quarter of a mile,) and in their route passed the Cumberland Valley depot. When they came to
the depot they found the cars still there, and in the last car there were but two passengers, Mr.
Craig and the President of the Middletown Bank. Joseph [a California Congressman], who is a
very large man, stepped into the car through the front door and fired at Craig. Robert stepped
to the side of the car on the platform almost level with the car, and fired through the window.
Craig returned the fire of both almost simultaneously, with a revolver in each hand, and thus
some twenty shots were fired in almost as many seconds. . .
The McKibbens reluctantly entered into bonds for their appearance at the next Court, to
answer to any charge that may be preferred against them. At the instance of the President of
the Cleveland and Vicksburg Railroad Co., they have also been held in $2,000 each, to keep
the peace.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1857 .
TRIAL OF BATES.—The case of Dr. Bates, late State Treasurer, has been removed to Placer county
for trial. The next term of the Court of Sessions of that county commences on the second Monday of
February, and the case of the late Treasurer will be among the first disposed of.
The Case of Butler.
A very bitter feeling has been aroused in Sierra county in consequence of the act of the Governor in