Show DEATH OF CHARLES FLAKE we extract the following from a letter forwarded to the nims NEWS for publication licati li cation oD it was written by joseph H frisby to a friend in this city from snowflake arizona under date dec and has hag reference to the killing billing of young charles flake in that territory 1 I have to tell you of one oi of the worst affairs that has ever happened in this settlement you will remember young mr flake with whom I 1 came home two wo days ago he and his bis brother and father and myself were talking in the store when ft a messenger buy boy handed him a telegram saying that a 8 stranger who was in the settlement was a bank robber that the sheriff of new mexico was coming after him and that for fear the man would leave before he got there he wanted mr flake to arrest him and keep him until the sheriff arrived young flake did not tell his father or myself what the telegram contained but he and his brother just stepped over to where the man was about twelve rods distant from where we and tried to ti arrest him in less lesa than ten seconds the fellow shot charlie to io the neck and killed him also shot his hia brother through the ear but the brother then shot the man killing him the two lay dead in less leas than a minute charlie was a good young man we were out as aa home missionaries and traveled together the sad ead affair has baa broken me all up stud the whole town la Is in a gloom since clince writing the foregoing I 1 have been to see aee james jamea flake when the mau shot ahot him he be was so 80 close that the powder burnt his hie face terribly and almost destroyed hta his left eye we did not notice this at first because he was covered with blood from his hia head to his big waist it was waa the most moat sickening sight I 1 ever witnessed his eye la is now deiy very bad erysipelas has baa set in and I 1 am afraid that blood poisoning will follow there la is no telling how it will go with him yet N |