At 11 o’clock on Sunday last the startling…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

At 11 o’clock on Sunday last the startling information was flashed to this city by wire that on the evening previous Norman Buck had been shot and instantly killed by Otter John- son, in Lordsburg, the home of both gentlemen. Buck had resided there less than two years, coming from Texas, where he had made a tem- porary location after graduating in the law. He was a bright young man, and during his short sojourn here had made many warm friends and, as he was a man of strong preju- dices and generally expressed his opinion pretty freely, he had not a few enemies in this section of the county. His death, however, was a great surprise to his many friends here, who mani- fested great anxiety to obtain the full particu- lars, which, as near as the Enterprise can as- certain, are about as follows: