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Show BIO STRIKE AT FARO WITH A HATCH KT. On Wednesday evening, at Carson, Nevada, an enterprising young wood-chopper wood-chopper tried to chop his way to fortune for-tune with a hatchet. Ho was a young man, of tiorid eonplexion, dressed in the garb ol woodsman or teamster, and the saloon where he made the attempt is on Caron street, just above the corner cor-ner of Se'in 1. We extract trnui the A'. 7i'..'' r of Thursday morning the following fol-lowing account of the affair ; Pa-sing through the saloou to the faro room in the roar, he walked up to the table and placed a dollar upon it with his left hand, keeping the light I under his coat. A mau named Burn-side Burn-side was dealing at the game. llaSerty sitting a few feet from the tabic reading a paper, a third man was it-ling it-ling in a high chair over the uj"n y drawer, and several others were standing stand-ing in the ro.'iu. The young u.an lo-t the dollar he hal !axi upon the table, and immediate. y made p.unge lor two or three .stacks et j :.-.'e; in the drawer, at the satuo lime drawing draw-ing from under his coat. lth his rght hand, a hatchet or ha id-ax, with which he attempted tOftr.kc Bumsde. The man in the high chair shevel him back and sprang to the jxt Uhind him. lut while looking 1 r sytueihirig with which to knock the desjrado ,i..wn. the U'ter cade an-ther b.ow at Burnside with the hat. bet. putting his i. oat on the shoulder an in othei rlao.-. By this time B..rh rty gamed his hot and made a r.i-l. at the rubber, rub-ber, ja-t as the la: tor c.o- A Lis tngers u(..m a p. nLu cf the nv to: re-,,e re-,,e vi.d a bi'w from the I a:, hi t whi, intliered a eh wound .-n the Sr.c-r. As Kaierty fell back. J-.e third mar hulled a chair at the head of the rob; ber which sucsCred bun and caused Lira to drop his wpon. By :hi-t:me :hi-t:me Burnsidi tal out a s:x sh:.-:er acd was rapiily snpfi-g -. ing which, the rooe: tr.ke and ntn. .-nipping thj gl-s i:: the Eiiid.e dvvr ss he wcl- Ar'ur bursting four cap-. Burnstie sa.-srciei in firing one -hot jut as the. r :ber escaped es-caped at the front doer. Tie t. however, did not take ef-vt. Tne youns man ran out into the P.-zt. cle scribed a circ.e, and ran into Eii's 1 store and asked for s pUtoL At this I stage of proceedings Constable Sam Hgdgkinson reached the s:ore Living seen the desperado enter; and sez-j j him, and, with the assistance of rj::r j watchman Lewis, conveyed him u-i u-i jail. The prisoner declined o. give his name, and on being asktrd what he had done wi:h the money l-ome iio or taken, remarked that he threw it away while crossing the r'inza. adding: "It only amounted to the pri.-e of one load of wood. '' He had on a large pair of gum boots, and was otherwise dressed as a woodman or teamster. It is believed that he is a Canadian Frenchman, engaged in the wood bus iness hereabouts, though no one seemeo to know him, even by sight. The hatchet used was stolen from the store of A. B. Drieshach a hort time before the attempt was made to use it. |
