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Show mm s::cots Cruf!;iii:::?.3 b i;:r.:r.3 Tova of . I(evci3. Is Quickly Aver-ced. . GOLD FIELD, , Nev.. Mar Mc-Rhyollte, the principal town In the Bullfrog district, dis-trict, wma the scene today of a double tragedy. Steve O'Brien, a miner, shot and killed hi wife. . . - Deputy Sc-riff McDonald, attempted to diaarm and arrest O'Brien,, wno drew a revolver and waa about to shoot, when McDonald fired and O'Brien dropped dead. The shooting occurred at the Hotel Golden on Goldfleld street. Steve O'Brien had been "on bad terms with-his family for some time and his wife was about to proceed to set a divorce. H entered the house today and, after a few heated words, shot his wife tn the face. She was carried to a drug-store, where she died. O'Brien came oat of the lodging house where he lived. In the mean Urn people had heard of the shooting and a treat crowd surrounded the place, 'and preparations prepara-tions were made to mob and hang him. Deputy Sheriff McDonald and Justice of the Peaoe John Donnelly rushed to the scene. . ' As O'Brien waa attempting to make his scape, carrying a pistol in one hand and a miner's candlestick In the other. Deputy 6 be riff McDonald arrived, and In the. melee O'Brien stabbed him lust below the heart with the sharp end of the miner's candlestick, only breaking the skin.. When McDonald ordered O'Brien - to' drop the pistol and candlestick he refused and made an effort to shoot. McDonald anticipated him and shot him through the peart. O'Brien dropped dead In hi tracks. |