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uvr: a ...ii it) •••..Kin.I'• I IT ill I• Inti It’ll taJtci ,»u'i an«i r» v :i ii • i lo Suminv tu r \v .1 la-, tii'* cunr.psvd in 111*■ . ••*!*.1 ul 4 r.iukv-rrii i* aiso in jail, having been hel 1 to answer to the grand ju ry for 1 he murders commht • I by Him*-r. A' there in 110 Mini jury railed fur iliH term of cojr.*, Kehi-vcrria may luiv«* u remain in j.d until the February term of court-. t!i igli il is po'siblo step* a ill he l iken tu secure his rele.is*.*, tvhieh, under the cirrum.-ta.Tees, wotiKI dimply ho un act, of justice.Buster 11111 le a dean breast of his ter-rihie crime before the Lovelock j isticc »f the peace. At the examination an Indian squaw, the widow of Ft ink lories, was p it 0.1 tin* stand. She said Buster wu-* the murderer. Buster was then questioned and made a statement Confessing to the killing.The whole story, as made from Bus-tor's confession and other facts known to 1 he officers, is us follows: Buster andFrank .lone/ wife had been iutinmie an 1 they planned to put Jones out 01 the way and g**t married. Buster wan to do the killing and after theexdteineni hlew over was logo away. She was to follow and they were to he married. He fitlillled the first part of the contract hui not the latter. Alter the killing he went back to the reservation and Ihj-came smitten of another woman and sealed his doom. The scorned Jones woman vowed vengeance and told to Constable Coxzens of Lovelock the story of Buster's terrible crime.Buster hhvm lie killed Messer and Jones about noon on the 21st of November, shooting them witli a 44-calibre rifle lie stole from a cabin. He shot Messer first and then Jones, tiring four shots in all. The other details of the homicide as to (lie dragging of the Iks lies and putting sticks in the wounds are well known.Buster carried the rifle back to the reservation and hid it. He told Sheriff Hadley where the gun whs and it was brought up on the train yesterday.The Wadsworth Dispatch goes out of its wav to give (he IlmolM.Idr ant hornier, a dig for not arresting Buster sooner. He was closely watched by the Indiansand the reservation authorities, and could not have gotten out of ti.ecountry. His case was to have come before the grand jury.whieh does not meet to-day ,u* stated by the Dispatch. Undue haste would have defeated the ends of justice, for if he had been arrested a«»oner, lie certainly would not have fallen out with the Jones woman, and caused her to give him away. Without her testimony and Buster's confession, circumstantial evidence would have ln*en stronger against Kvheverria.—Silvei Slat.*.The Disc Arm does not go out of the wav to dig anyliody who does not deserve it. The statement that the delay caused the crime to come out, is all rot. There wasn't a stockman here who went Into that country after the murder, who didntgo fully armed anil was watchful. After the Discatcii got the evidence, the sentiment here was that Buster should be taken out of harm's way at once, anil our desire was to get things moving. The Winnemucca officialswere derelict in their duty. We cannot explain how Kcheverriu liecanie p« b-sessed of his knowledge, and thought he met Buster when Buster returned after committing the murder. Kcheverriu should healde to make things e'ear. We congratulate Constable Cozzens andJudge Young for tiieir promptness and the results.The Dispatch published Buster's confession verbatim, an taken in Judge Young's court, an I it is explicit to uny-ImkIv familiar with the Indian’s mode of expressing himself.Kruin what Constable Cotzened wormed out of Buster at llt;ovelocks, and what Constable lattlirnp got from the Jones squaw at Wadsworth, the story is;Buster and Frank Jones’ squaw were intimate and tin* squaw told Buster if he did not kill Frank Jones sha would do it herself. Buster made up his mind nt Wadsworth on Sunday to do the deed as it was here 011 that day Frank Jones gave him the key to the cabin where the ritlo was. .Monday Buster went to the reservation mid g.u the rifle. Tuesday he rodo Comanche, leading anotherhorse, put the roll of blankets in front of him, the rifle and grub in tin* blankets and started for I.imho. At seven Springs lie met Kotik. Bluu tdl an I il h with a hunch of John Lee’s cattle. Kotik u-Kcd Busuir whom he was going an I Bu.-ter replied to get horses. Roiik told him to get I i.t and he would payhim. Bn-ter a-i..d where t mg and Kouk *a.d to KciiO.Bu ter passe t Hu* nijil, air I t o il night ul Pn.i.twere t:or.* n;i 1 : . 1Li.110 1 i;o . H* a:; morniii ‘ it s.i ,v thought lie iiiI It is fjOrdCS 1 1 he men. •. Jim 13 vim: loft fooilil:is»r lea \Yn i *ar.de.y e and\ .j/i .1,He saw Fran* Messer and Frank Jo 1. start for the eanyon. lie km*w thete was but one outlet to the canyon and Ik rode lh iv ail I stake I iiis horses behind 1 bluff of rocks. He waited and fruni the top of tile hill, shortly afn*r noon, he saw them co ning, tlio wagon in tin lead, Frank Mrs-ier right behind on hi* horse. As 1O011 as they had passed he lircd at Frank Mo.-ser, who dropped from the horse a corpse at tie* first snot. He then iir •«I ai I*rank Jones on the wagqu an I turned. II* tired ujain, thought lie missed and fired again, when Frank Jones fell dea i, having iceii killed by the seeon 1 shot Hr*-1 at him. He then tangled Frank Jo;ier h*gs in a very long grass rnj e he fouiid in the wagon, took ce lar sticks an I jammed them in tin* bullet woundsand trailed the rope in the dirietioti o tlie wagon. He put a rope around Frank Mesaey and dragged the body some yards, stuck re kir- sticks in the bullet holes ami bent one h*g under the body. He then took the horses a ml drove then, so tie* wagon nearly upset against a pib of rocks, trailed the reins and unhitched the traces. He covered up bin traek.-the U-st he could, mounted his Iiomc and struck for the lake shore on the gall/p, leading the other horse. The rilli was in the blankets, and lie hid ii near Patsy O’Day’s by burying it. He readied the reservation that evening, having met nolxnly on the way. He met Frank Jones'squaw at Wadsworth, and told her what, be had done. They fell out soon after, she taking up with Mahoney. BuhUt'.s half brothei, and Buster will. Jim King's wife. The Indian trailers, when they reached the scene, knew “Comanche's” tracks, and Buster's tracks by means of a tap 011 his shoe. Buster was with them, and they took the cartridges from their guns for fear Buster would grab one and kill soine-Isaly if they told they knew he was the murderer. They went to the reservation and would have shot him, were il not fur Captain Dave anil Natchez, who told them to await tlie result of F.ehcverrmv trial. When Buster met Kouk, Blundw! and Hill on his way down, he was afraid Ifouk would track him, and told at lovelocks lie would have killed Kouk if then was nobody there. lie was partially satisfied w hen Kouk said he was going toReno. When Buster was asked why he put sticks in tlie wounds, he said to make it look like a runaway, and he dragged Spanish Frank's body to make it look more like a runaway, lie said lie knew Jim Fwing “had 110 ears, referring t« F.wing's deafness, and thought anyhow, F.w ing hail gone to Wadsworth.
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Wadsworth Dispatch
Wadsworth, Nevada, US
Wed, Jan 22, 1896
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