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source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

usiness is stopped. If not it will bring the cases before the grand jury and indict the criminals, for such they are under the law. If New Mexico expects to be admitted as a state this law cannot be too rigidly enforced. From lhe November 1, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise J. J. Kelly, a butcher at San Pedro, on Wednesday of last week, went into the store of Major Weed, at San Pedro, and after making a few purchases, fell into a playful contest with one of the clerks. In the course of their play, the clerk took a revolver out of the cash drawer. This Kelly attempted to take away from him. In the scuffle, still playful, the pistol was discharged, the ball entering Kelly’s ab- domen and coming out of the back near the spine. Kelly died next morning about 2 o’clock. He was a man advanced in life, and leaves a wife and eleven children to mourn his loss. The young clerk is said to be nearly beside himself with grief at the accident. We once saw Uncle Ben Peers, of Hermosa, break the necks of two deer at one shot; and another time we saw him shoot two deer end- wise at one shot. Bill McKay, of Kingston, in 1884, killed three at one shot, and no one thought enough about it to report it to the news- papers.— Kingston Shaft.