New: Boardroom MCP Engine!

Ready to put this into action?

Get the complete Frontier Wisdom CollectionHistory, legends, and timeless wisdom from the American frontier — resilience, grit, and self-reliance.

Gold Hill has been luxuriating in all the…

📅 1889newspaper📜 public-domainid: s_gold-hill-has-been-luxuriating-in-all-the_f2f70d📄 TEI

Entities extracted from this source (5)

Chunks (2)

chunk 1990 · paragraph 0
Gold Hill has been luxuriating in all the delights of a well developed case of scandal. It seems that William Werney had reasons to believe that his wife was not true to her mar- riage vows, and began an investigation. Last Saturday night Mrs. Werney was missing from her home and Werney went to find her. He said he had reason to believe she was up at Henry Schrader’s house with the man he sus- pected of ruining his family, Thos. Holman, and so took his son and a six shooter and went up to see about it. He went up very quietly, burst open the door, the boy scratched a match and the couple was in flagrante delicto. Werney was about to kill Holman, when he thought of his children, who would be left without a pro- tector while he was in jail and so stayed the fatal shot. He retired down the gulch and, be- ing somewhat perturbed in mind, handled his six shooter carelessly, and the result was he shot himself in the left hand. Sunday he came down town and had his hand dressed, and Monday swore out a complaint charging Holman with getting his wife drunk, and while she was in that condition commiting the crime of rape. Holman was arrested and examined before Judge Jones, when he brought forth his story of what happened last Saturday night. He claims that Werney had discarded his wife and that she had taken refuge at Schrader’s.
chunk 1991 · paragraph 0
and while she was in that condition commiting the crime of rape. Holman was arrested and examined before Judge Jones, when he brought forth his story of what happened last Saturday night. He claims that Werney had discarded his wife and that she had taken refuge at Schrader’s. He and a companion named Cooper heard she was des- titute and went up to give her some money, out of a pure feeling of charity. Holman went in with the money while Cooper watched on the outside to see that no one, especially Werney, should discover the charitable deed. He was sitting on the side of the bed, the woman having retired, talking about matters, the room being dark, when the husband burst in, looked around and left. Nothing criminal had occurred. Judge Jones seemed to think the story slightly gauzy for he held Holman under $500 bonds to await the action of the grand jury. C. S. Cooper and L. Miller signing the bail bond for him. — Liberal.

Get the Old West Dispatch

Weekly insights on old west — delivered to your inbox. No spam, unsubscribe any time.

Want to choose specific topics? Customize your interests