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

that Smith was unarmed, told him to go and heel himself. Smith thereupon went into the store where he had left his pistol, which he secured, but friends interfered and prevented his returning. Pitman, on learning the cause of Smith’s not coming back, began to threaten ( 6 ) 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.Teresa Murray, a middle aged woman, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by taking morphine. She was at John M. Ginn’s office asking him to assume charge of a suit she has against the railroad company in which judgment has been granted her, but which is on appeal. The suit was the result of a young son having a leg cut off by the Silver City train at Deming several years ago.