NEVADA PASTIME.
They had a little affair of pistols at Jefferson, Nev., a Aveek ago Sunday night, and buried a man named McDonald next day. McDonald and a man known as Texas were engaged in the improving Nevada pastime of poker, and Texas won the pot fairly and squarely. McDonald didn’t like the idea of losing the money, and slipped two cards into the pack, claiming a “foul.” Texas Avould not alloAV the foul, and McDonald proceeded to choke him. Texas said he was not prepared to fight, and McDonald told him to go and “heel himself.” Texas went off and “ heeled himself ” Avith a navy revolver and came back. McDonald fired tAvo shots then before Texas got ready, but missed, and then firing became lively, and those not directly interested got behind the bar or out in the street. Finally McDonald got a bullet in the head and fell, and Texas stepped up to him and shot him tAvice again. When they finally picked McDonald up, Texas examined the dead man critically, and said, “Boys, I hated to do this, but I had to!”
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 245, 23 March 1875, Page 3
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