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Show TEBRIT0IUAL EYS. ;Dy Di-.'eret Ti-l'-irrrn. h Lijc.J More of tUr .Murclrr by n Indian near Dtntr. The Mn:(trer Ckugiit. iflt-KCliL TO IUK H-1:aLU. Beaver, 22. Ye-M-rd .y :thout three o'eloek p.m., Penni.i McMahon, ihe wounded Mi:i!i, Was bruiiu'lit into Heaver. He -Mt' that "At half-pat five o'clock a.m., we were going up the mountains and wvre hailed by an Indian armed with a double-barreled rifle, having uioUMaehe and beard, who -aid he was one of lv;mu-h's Indians l'rom Corn Creek, and a-ked where our Camp Was, for he wanted biscuit". Vc told him where the camp was, and that he would find biscuits, in a sack lied up to a tree. We returned to camp at half-pant two o'clock p.m., and tound that the Ii.di.ui had taken niu.-t of our provisions and ad our gunpowder. We were in camp only a few minutes, when, as O'Conuell was in the act of placing his gun agaiu-t a trr-c, a shot was fired from the other side of the creek, woundinu him m the left arm. then seized the ami, but could not see tho enemy, the quarter from where the shot came being covered with heavy brm-h and timber. I proceeded pro-ceeded to bind up his wound, and while doing so was shot through the left arm close to the shoulder, breaking my arm and shoulder joint. When wounded 1 started ilir the thicket, firing two shots from my revolver to try and drive the Indian out, but O'Conncil begged me to come back. We then moved into tho heavy timber at the foot of the hill, when O'Connell became be-came faint and refused to go any further, saying a ball had just glanced oil' the side of his head. He tuld uie as wo had no ammunition tit.it 1 had better go to tbo mill, which wan only eight miles, and get assistance. I left him behind a log, with the double-barreled double-barreled shot-gun by him, loaded with buck shot. I arrived at the mill at nine o'clock p.m. When a short distance dis-tance from where I left him, I heard the repo-t of two shots." Doctor Christian and eight men left the mill yesterday morning at daylight to hunt the body. By a report just received from Corn Creek, the party had not found the body but hail captured Sissiek, the murderer, at Cove Creek. Fourteen miners left hero this morning to hunt the body. Mr. Wenceslaw has extracted the bullet from McMahon. The ball entered into his arm half an inch below be-low the joint at the shoulder, breaking the bone of the arm and joint of the shoulder. The ball then glanced and lodged ou the breast bone between the windpipe and the skin. |