Murder At Georgetown

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d to get home. The antelope and cattle on the plains have been dying rapidly of hunger and cold. Among the other calamities the Plaza was out of Whisky for several weeks. ( 27 ) ■ _ - . ’ ■ ' 1889 From the January 4, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Murder At Georgetown Early last Sunday morning, December 30, the dead body of Donaciano Gonzalez, with a bullet wound in the breast above the region of the heart, was found in the main street, oppo- site the meat market of Storz & Henchling, in Georgetown. There being no justice of the peace there, and the nearest one being notified and failing to attend to hold an inquest, county commissioner Bragaw summoned a jury and di- rected Dr. W. B. Carson to make a post mortem examination and act as coroner: This inquest was held at 2 p.m. Monday, rendering the fol- lowing verdict. “We, the undersigned acting as coroner and jury in an inquest holden at Georgetown, in said county on the 31st of De- cember, 1888, upon the body of Donaciano Gon- zalez, lying there dead, find, that the deceased came to his death by a shot from a pistol in the hands of Thomas Harrington.”Signed — Wm. B. Carson, M. D., acting coroner; J. C. Luff, Jacob Helde, G. O. Smith, John A. Deemer, Michael Huges, Loyal L. Case.