Jim Cummings, who has been employed…

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another incision a short distance to one side. Then lay- ing the lancet down upon the bureau he had walked to the bed, on which he had thrown himself and slowly bled to death. Mr. Ricker is of the opinion that he had not been dead more than a few moments when discovered. Jim Cummings, who has been employed on the King mine at Clifton, has been arrested for the murder of poor' “Yorkie,” which oc- curred on north Percha last fall. There are five others under indictment for the same crime. “Yorkie” lived in Silver City about five years ago. He was a good natured boy and generally liked. Pete Spence, who is well known through- out the west, especially in Grant County and Tombstone, recently planted another victim at Clifton. He had some trouble with one “Cur- ley,” who also lived in Grant County at one time. “Curley” was to some extent mixed in some of the ore stealing then going on in this section, and later on became the running mate of Renick, of stage robbing notoriety. It was ( 13 )