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Show BHOOTiaUAT ASDT. By De&eret telegraph we have the following account of a shooting affair at Sandy yesterday afternoon : A man named James Edward?, from Pioche, came into Sandy abon: 2 p.m., and got into a nuaxrel with two others, which shortly aiter resulted in a shoot- I ipg scrape, when Edwards was shot in I the head and instantly killed. One I man standing in tr.e crowd was also I ahot in the leg, but the wound is not I erioti5. It seems that Edwards nsed j very abusive language and had fired three shots and drawn a bowie-knife betore he was killed- Sympathy appears ap-pears to be on the side of the man who did the killing and who at this time is unknown. From a gentleman who was in Sandy San-dy at tho time of the occurrence we learn that Edwards courted kilHrjj:. He was slinging around his pistol and bowie knife, until his death seemed to be a necessary act of self-preservation. The man who did the shooting should have delivered himself op, and, from all we can hear of the cas, he would undoubtedly have been discharged. The subjoined additional particulars reached as yesterday evening: The ball entered the right temple and lodged io the skull, through which . the brains ooxed out. The following is the verdict of the coroner's jury, summoned by Isaac Harrison, J. P., to examine the body of James Edwards, Ed-wards, deceased, to wit: That Baid James Edwards came to his death from a pistol shot wound, through the head, said pistol shot fired by some person or persons unknown to the jury. He.nhy Gray, S. P. Hitch, C. W. Sloper, Jury. John A. Gillett. |