Thomas Harrington, whose alias is “Curley,”…
source date: 1889
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Thomas Harrington, whose alias is “Curley,” although working for some months past leasing in the mines at Georgetown, is of the genus hoodlum and tin horn. He has the reputation of being very vicious and desperate when drinking to which he was addicted. The remains of Gon- zales were buried at Georgetown on Monday. A large number of citizens of both races at- tended. The vacancies in precinct offices leav- ing no one authorized to check disorder, disarm drunken men, or arrest belligerents on the incipiency of trouble, have emboldened the vi- cious and turbulent of both races in Georgetown resulting in the serious, perhaps fatal wound- ing of one Mexican and killing of another, and terrible beating of a white man, engendering such a bitter feeling between certain classes of the two races as may lead to more killing if not promptly and firmly held in check . . . There were no eye witnesses to the killing, but there is every link in the chain of circumstances showing that Harrington fired the first shot. He enticed the man out of the saloon into the semi-darkness of the morning, without any quarrel having taken place, and in a few minutes the fatal shot was fired. It was one of those foul murders re- sulting from the vicious, depraved disposition in man which causes him to kill another to see him fall.