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NEVADA GAZETTE JULY 19 & 20, 1865 355
HOMICIDE.—We learn that yesterday morning at Newtown two Chinese companies got into a
dispute and fight in regard to water. Mr. Adam Shirley, proprietor of the ditch, took sides
with one party, and during the melee drew his revolver and fired several shots into the crowd,
instantly killing one Chinaman and wounding another so badly that he could not possibly
recover. Parties were in the city yesterday to procure a warrant for the arrest of the shootist, but
we have not yet heard of his apprehension.
DISTRICT COURT—JUNE TERM, 1865—HON. T. B. MCFARLAND PRESIDING.—This Court met
yesterday morning, when the following business was transacted:
[Martha] Hill vs. [Charles W.] Hill—Demurrer dismissed, and defendant given five days to answer.
William and Charles McHugh, natives of Ireland, were admitted to citizenship.
The case of the People vs. Hoskins was on trial when we left the Courtroom.
ESCAPED.—Newberry and Harry Hill escaped from the calaboose yesterday morning by lifting off
a portion of the board roof. Hill, a harmless old vagrant, was rearrested, but Newberry “cut his lucky,” and
has not since been heard of.
FINE PLUMS.—Mr. George E. Turner yesterday presented us with a sample of the Bleeker plums,
the finest we ever saw. There are said to be but two trees of this variety in the State, and Mr. Turner has
one of them.
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1865
JUSTICE AT LAST.—We learn by telegraph that the conspirators recently on trial at Washington
have been found guilty, and four of them sentenced to be hung. On the 5th President Johnson approved
the findings and sentences of the Military Commission. David C. Harrold, Lewis Payne, Mrs. Mary
E. Surratt and G. A. Atzerott were to be hung on the 7th. Dr. Mudd, Samuel Amold and O’Laughlin
were condemned to imprisonment for life, and Spangler was sentenced to six years hard labor in the
Penitentiary at Albany. No account of their execution has yet been received, but as the President had
refused to grant a reprieve in the case of Mrs. Surratt, they have all doubtless paid the penalty of their
horrible crime.
THAT HOMICIDE.—It appears from the reports in the Grass Valley papers of the shooting affair
at Newtown, that Mr. [Adam] Shirley was attacked by a large gang of Chinamen, and the shooting was
done in self-defense. Mr. Shirley went to Grass Valley and surrendered himself to the authorities, and an
examination was had before Justice O’Connor yesterday morning. A nolle prosequi was entered by the
District Attorney, and the accused was honorably discharged.
LIVERY STABLE.—Hank Place & Co. yesterday commenced the erection of a livery stable
nearly opposite the Union Hotel, on the lot below Jenkins’s Saloon. The building will be a frame, 45
feet front by 90 feet in depth, extending through from Main to Broad streets. George S. Pierce has the
work in charge, and it will be completed as soon as possible. So far as we are able to discover from our
advertising columns there is no livery stable in town, and Messrs. Place & Co. ought to be able to do a
driving business.
DISTRICT COURT—JUNE TERM, 1865—HON. T. B. MCFARLAND PRESIDING.—This Court met
yesterday morning, when the following business was transacted: