and abuse everyone and finally wanted to know…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

and abuse everyone and finally wanted to know if Smith had any friends. A young man named Blaine, recently from Texas, walked over to his horse, pulled his Winchester rifle from its scab- bard and threw it down on Pitman, telling him to throw up. Instead of doing so, however, Pit- man turned toward Blaine. As he did so, both fired almost simultaneously. Pitman fell dead, shot through the heart, the ball entering under the left arm and passing through the body and coming out under the right arm. Blaine was shot through the shoulder, the ball striking the shoulder-blade and splitting, one half coming out on the left side below the ribs and the other on the right side. Blaine lived only two hours.