IDAHO DAILY STATESMAN – BOISE, IDAHO

DECEMBER 6, 1894

SHOOTING ON THE SALMON

Two Miners Enter Into a Conspiracy to Kill Their Partner – They Quarrel Over the Details of the Proposed Murder and One of the Men is Shot – The intended Victim Appears on the Scene and Perforates the Other

(Special to the Statesman)

GRANGEVILLE, DEC. 5 – A fatal shooting affray occurred on Salmon River, two miles above Fiddle creek.  Halford, Hepps and O’Brien were working a claim.  Halford supplying  the grub and the others doing the work.  O’Brien and Hepp, it is said, conspired to do away with Halford when he returned with a load of supplies.  Hepp and O’brien got into a wrangle over the conspiracy.  O’Brien shot Hepp, killing him instantly.

Halford coming up, took the gun away from O’Brien.  O’Brien then ran for a gun in self defense.  Halford shot him through the hips.  Halford went to Mount Idaho and gave himself up. 

O’Brien is said to be a man of hard character, having had several disputes in Spokane and the Coeur d’Alenes.  The preliminary examination of Halford will be held tomorrow.

 

 

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