October 5. John Snyder was stabbed and killed by John F. Reed, at Gravelly Ford, Humboldt County. They were members of the "Donner party."

September 27. John Watson, alias "Texas," was shot and killed by Green Hensly, near where Fort Churchill now stands. Hensly was hung by his associates immediately thereafter.

Joe Barnard was killed by a trader from California, at Clear Creek Station, on the line between Douglas and Ormsby Counties. Barnard was one of the framers of the Squatters' Resolutions of Government.

Two men, one named Steward and the other Larkin, were mining upon the east fork of Carson River in the fall of 1857. In the month of November Larkin was found murdered in the cabin occupied by both, and Steward was nowhere to be found. At first it was supposed that Larkin had been killed by Steward, who had fled the country. But later, when the circumstances were all taken into consideration, people entertained the settled conviction that both men were murdered by someone unknown. Larkin had that summer arrived in the valley with an emigrant train bound for California, but falling in with some relatives who had settled near Genoa, he was by them made acquainted with Steward, and thus became his mining partner. Larkin had no money at the time he began work with Steward, while the latter had about $1,000 in his possession and $800 deposited with a Mr. Wade, who lived in the valley. Steward has never since been heard of, and it is probable that he was killed and his body so disposed of as to induce the belief that he had killed his partner and fled.

June. ___ Knabler was shot and killed near the Sierra Nevada Works, Virginia City, in a quarrel about his wife.

September 5. T. Nelson Deals was shot and killed by ___ McAboy, at Willowtown, on the Carson River, four miles above Ragtown, and his widow now lives at Genoa.

September 13. Sailor Jack was shot by William Newman, at Virginia City.

January. Homer Woodruff was stabbed and killed by Sam Brown, in Virginia City.

January. ___ Henriques was stabbed and killed by Isaac Lanier, at Virginia City. A countryman of Henriques killed Lanier with a pick-axe.

February 11. Joseph Newberry was shot and killed by ___ McMarlin, near Genoa. Dispute over title to land.

April. ___ Domingo was shot and killed in his tent by some person unknown.

April. A Mexican was killed in Light's saloon, Virginia City,Bill Burns and Jeff Standifer both claiming the honor of firing the shot.

November. Jas. N. Stevenson was shot and killed by John L. Blackburn, in Carson City.

Martin Burke was stabbed fatally by ___ Fitzgerald, in Virginia City.

Billy Brown was killed by Jack Williams, in a billiard saloon on North C Street, Virginia City. 

___ McKenzie was killed by Sam Brown, in Virginia City. Brown ran a knife into his victim, and then turned it around, completely cutting the heart out, then wiped his bloody knife and laid down on a billiard table and went to sleep.

August 31. Thomas Stead was killed by a soldier, at Buckland Station, Lyon County. Probably and election-day row. The man was killed with a club.

In the fall Wm. Gephard shot and killed an inoffensive old Irishman, who was helping to build Honey Lake Smith's Station. He was not even arrested for the killing.

November 18. John L. Blackburn, Sheriff of Carson County, was stabbed and killed by Wm. Mayfield, a gambler, at Carson City.

July 28. Dr. F. Chorpenning was killed, at Aurora, by Wm. Pooler. The doctor was acting Assistant Surgeon for the command of Captain Rowe.

October 29. T. Varney was killed by Allen Milstead, at Ragtown, on the Carson River. Milstead was hanged January 9, 1863, at Dayton, by the Sheriff.

November 23. Cornelius Mason was killed by Edward Richardson.

Parsons Atkinson and his nephew, Wm. Rogers, were killed by Wm. Barnwell and ___ Stout, at Pine Nut, Ormsby County. The murderer fled the country and were heard of no more. Dispute in relation to coal.

December 10. Jack Williams, a noted desperado, was killed in Pat Lynch's saloon. Pistols were fired in the front room to attract attention, when the rear door of the back room was opened a few inches and a shot fired from a pistol, which killed him. He had killed several men in California and Nevada, had bitter enemies, and expected to be killed finally. He was out on bail for robbery at the time.

December 25. N. Brown was shot and killed by T. Ferris alias "Butcher Bob," at the Pioneer Bar in Unionville. Ferris was put under bond of $2,500 to appear for trial, but was never tried.

An unknown man, a German, was found murdered on North B Street, Virginia City.

December. Thomas Reader was shot and cut in such a manner as to cause death, on B Street, Virginia City.

January 11. Morris Roach was killed by William Looney, who was acquitted.

January 17. John Smith was shot and killed by Second Lieutenant Henry A. Williams, at Snake Creek Station, in Honey Lake Valley. Quarrel over a game of cards. They both belonged to Company C, Second California Volunteers. Smith was a private soldier.

January 23. Geo. W. Derickson was killed by H. F. Swayze, at Washoe City.

February 10. Thos. McLaughlin was killed by Edward McGrath, at Aurora. A dispute over a mining claim, the cause.

April 12. ___ McKinty was stabbed with a knife, by a Chinaman, at Winters' Mill, one-half mile south of Aurora. McKinty died on the twenty-fifth of the same month.

March. ___ Kelly was shot in a cellar on North C. Street, Virginia City. 

October 30. Wm. Jones was stabbed and killed in the Texas saloon, Virginia City.

April 12. John Reed and John McMahon were shot and killed on North C Street, Virginia City, by a man named Campbell. The victims were polite men. Campbell was acquitted.

An Italian was shot and killed in a saloon on ? Street.

May 15. ___ Badgely was killed by ___ Tyrel, at Aurora, Esmeralda County.

June. Henry E. Herter was killed on the ? And Curry wood ranch, near Steamboat Springs, by parties unknown. Supposed to have been murdered for his money.

July 4. The proprietor of the San Francisco Saloon, corner of B and Union Streets, Virginia City, was shot and killed by Joseph McGee.

August. ___ Richardson was killed by J.P. Collen, at Virginia City. Cullen sentenced to two and ?.

On election day for municipal offices at Austin, Richard Allman became involved in a dispute with another man, about some trivial affair, which resulted in the killing of an innocent man upon the street-a stranger who had but recently arrived there-and who knew nothing whatever of the quarrel. Nothing was done with Allman, but he left soon after for Montana.

May 26. John Clark was shot and killed by Thomas Wilkinson, in Virginia City. Clark was tearing down Wilkinson's fence.

June 6. John E. Campbell was killed by H. T. Parlin, in a saloon. Campbell was the aggressor and was trying to shoot Parlin, when the latter crushed his skull by a blow from a pistol. Parlin was acquitted.

July 4. Charles H. Plum was stabbed and killed at a ball in Ophir, Washoe County, by a brother of a girl he kissed in a sportive manner, when dancing with her.

July 11. David McIntyre was killed by "Charley," near Silver City; was struck with a board.

August 5. John Doyle was stabbed and killed by James Linn, at Dayton, Lyon County. Linn was hanged by the citizens at 3 a.m. on the ninth.

Some time late in the fall of this year a young man named White, who had previously lived at Genoa, put more recently kept a wayside inn at New Pass, having had some difficulty with his wife, seized their child of a year old, and started with it in his arms, on horseback, across Reese River Valley. Friends of the wife pursued White for the purpose of taking the child away from him; and when about to overtake him, near the old town of Clifton, Lander County, he placed a revolver at his child's head, and blew out its brains. Then turning the pistol to his own head, he again fired, and fell from his horse a corpse, thus completing the horrid tragedy.

December 20. Michael Madden, alias "Mickey Free," was stabbed and killed by Charles Smith, in Gold Hill, Storey County. Quarrel over a game of cards. Sentenced to twenty-one years in State Prison.

December 22. Calvin Martin was killed by James Parsons, in Washoe County. He was acquitted.

Hiram H. Noble, a bystander, was fatally shot by J. J. Comer, alias "Pike," who was engaged in an altercation with a notorious character named Squires, at Carson City. Verdict, accidental.

March 8. Christopher Penny was stabbed and killed by Eugene Lefore, on the Geiger Grade.

March 12. Benjamin Metcalf was shot and killed by John E. Doyly. A drunken quarrel.

April 8. Peter O. Foster was killed at Gold Hill by parties unknown.

(The list for 1865 goes on for another page)

February 2. Martin V. Barnhart was killed by Thomas Peasley, in the Ormsby House, Carson City, Ormsby County, in self-defense. The former attacked him with a six-shooter, and though mortally wounded, Peasley managed to kill his assailant.

February 6. ___ Dodge was killed by Doc Kimball, at Washoe City, Washoe County. Dodge entered a gambling den kept by Kimball, and drawing a slung shot struck him over the eye, when Kimball stabbed him with a Bowie-knife.