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l — Herring Suicides After making arrangements for a strenu- ous prosecution. Herring started for home to bring his daughters in as witnesses at the pre- liminary examination. While his friends in Silver City were talking to him he seemed reti- ( 74 )cent and would say little. He was dazed and heart broken. He reached home about 6 :30 in the evening while the girls were milking the cows, and calling the girls to him questioned them in regard to the whole affair. The younger one told him all and it seems confirmed his worst fears. Telling the girls to go on with their milking, he sat down in the house, while they went to the corral to finish milking. A few minutes after a shot was heard, two men who were camped a short distance from the house, suspecting something wrong, hurried to the scene and found Herring lying dead with a bullet hole through his head and a Winchester rifle where it had fallen at his feet. He had gone into a work-room in the house and had either placed the butt of the Winchester on the work-bench or on the floor with tlie muzzle to his head and had pushed the trigger with a stick which lay close by. The shame and dis- grace had been too much for the brave, proud, sensitive man, rather than witness the shame of his daughters exposed to the public gaze in a court of law, he chose death.

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e muzzle to his head and had pushed the trigger with a stick which lay close by. The shame and dis- grace had been too much for the brave, proud, sensitive man, rather than witness the shame of his daughters exposed to the public gaze in a court of law, he chose death. He who had never feared death could not brave dishonor. A coroner’s jury was summoned who returned ' a verdict of suicide in accordance with the facts. The body was buried at Pinos Altos at 1 o’clock yesterday. Calvin Herring was an old and very I much respected citizen of Grant County. As one of our most prominent citizens remarked yesterday, “There is a dearth of such men in the community and Grant county could ill spare him.” A staunch Democrat, he fought in the Confederate army, making a gallant record, ( until the battle of Gettysburg when he was shot ( in the breast, the ball coming out under the right I shoulder blade. He was allowed to lie on the battlefield for eighteen hours supposed to be dead. When about to be buried signs of life were discovered and with care and attention he soon became a useful citizen, honored, trusted and respected by all good men, hated and feared by such as those who caused his death. Whether the law inflicts adequate pun- ishment or not upon his murderers, retribution sure will come. The criminals will have a pre- liminary examination today.