Teller County CO Archives Obituaries.....Walsh, Thomas February 28, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ronald J. Reid rreid21@cox.net July 7, 2008, 9:35 pm Cripple Creek Morning Times Morning Times (Cripple Creek, El Paso Co.) Mar 1, 1898, page 1 WALSH DIED AT THE HOSPITAL Spencer’s Victim Succumbs to the Wound. Injuries Too Serious Affected the Vertebrae, Against Which the Balls Lodged with Fatal Effect. Triumph of the X-Rays It Was But Temporary, as the Incidents of Walsh’s Death Fully Prove. Thomas Walsh is dead, and R.G. Spencer now has a charge of murder staring him in the face. Walsh died yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the effects of a wound inflicted by Spencer on Monday, February 21. The trouble between the two men occurred in Victor in the Arcade saloon. Both had been drinking, and they quarreled over possession of a five cent roulette chip. Bystanders separated the men, and took Walsh to the door and told him to leave the place. He returned to the room in a few minutes, and the quarrel was renewed. After a few moments of altercation Spencer drew a revolver and fired at his opponent. The ball struck Walsh in the larynx, passed almost entirely through the neck, and lodged near the spinal column. Spencer ran from the room, but was chased by the town marshal and captured. He was brought to Cripple Creek and placed in jail, where he now lies. Walsh was sent to St. Luke’s hospital in Denver, where the ball, which had been unsuccessfully probed for by Victor surgeons, was located by means of the X- rays, and extracted. It was hoped at first that he had a chance of recovery, but the bullet had lodged so close to the spinal column that it produced complete paralysis on one side, and the inflammation so affected the brain and spinal cord that death ensued. Spencer is still in jail in this city, and last night had not yet been told that his victim was dead, but was under the impression that he was recovering. Spencer was one of the owners of the Star saloon at Independence, and Walsh was a gambler in the Monarch saloon in victor. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/teller/obits/w/walsh208gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb