The second shooting of the day occurred…

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men. Roberts has a large family. Cress, who was an industrious man of good business ability, had accumulated property — horses, cattle, etc. — estimated to be worth from $20,000 to $25,- 000. He leaves no relatives in this territory, but is believed to have a brother in Texas. The second shooting of the day occurred at Chapman’s dance house. A discharged negro soldier named Nelson shot and instantly killed a woman named Sarah McHarris, also colored, and her 3-year-old child, and also wounded the child of another party. Nelson had been living with the woman, and jealousy caused the murder. Nelson was arrested by George Le- high, a special officer, and while in the officer’s charge, a negro soldier from Fort Grant — a sergeant named Thomas, who was a friend of the murdered woman — attempted to kill him, but failed, only succeeding in putting a ball through Nelson’s wrist. Lehigh then attempted to arrest Thomas, but the latter resisted, and the officer shot him in the leg. The limb will probably have to be amputated. So far as heard from, this ended the day’s bloody work. A Reminiscence