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otiVivtl »«*» him in thi State, i• wa-brought back and surrendered t«» the t ite l'l i«*n authorities. I le lingered ; along. unable to do anything on ac count of his wounds, until his tei tn of imf •risoiiment e\| ired. He then went hack to Virginia City anti l*ecame a1 fixture about dance houses and oth« r low dt ns, umil the Vigilance Committee ordered him away last spring. He went to Keno, and received another! notice to leave: thence to Kureka, and was there ordered off. An anonymous letter rceeived in fhiseitv from Ktireka a few days afterward stated that lien.Kirk had been ordered away hv the citizens of that town, and that he had left for Carson City, on foot, swearing that he intended to kill a certain man (resident here) on sight. Kirk arrived the same day the letter did, and has been closely watched ever since. He ventured tip to Virginia a few weeks since, hut returned the same day. fearing that under the cover of darkness the Vigilantes would hang him. He left here bv the 4 o’clock train Thursday evening, and was hanged a few' hours afterward. Just be tore leaving, lie asked a young man in t*iis city if lie thought the \ igi lantes would hang him if he went to Virginia and remained over night. The answer was in a jocular tone, hut only too true: “Certainly they will— and ought to.”Unlucky.—Some time since Nasbystarted to Pine (4rove from Genoa^but on reaching Wellington’s helearned of the existence of a Vigilance Committee at the Grove and turned back. Yesterday morning he started to Virginia on Billy Wilson’s stage, but hearing of the hanging of Kirk by the Vigilantes, he concluded it would not be safe for him to go farther than Gold Ilill. There is also a committee at Reno—and we cannot see how Nasby is to escape from the State by any of the popular lines of travel.
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Carson City Daily State Register
Carson City, Nevada, US
Sat, Jul 15, 1871
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Susie K.
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