Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....MASIA, Miguel May 1 1921
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Las Vegas Age - 5/7/1921


MEXICAN MURDERED LAST SUNDAY EVENING



LABORER FROM SLOAN KILLED ON MAIN STREET BRIDGE - NO ARRESTS MADE



    Miguel MASIA, a Mexican employed by the Nevada Lime and Rock Company at

Sloan, was shot and killed in broad daylight Sunday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m. on

the small bridge across the creek on Main street in the northern part of

town.

    James SMITH, who cares for the Elwell warehouse in the old automobile

stage building, was sitting outside the building at the time, and was, so

far as known, the only eyewitness of the tragedy.  At the inquest he

testified that he noticed two Mexicans pass him, and that they went as far

as the bridge, where they stopped for about ten minutes and engaged in an

altercation.  Then as they were standing about four feet apart, one drew a

revolver and shot.  The other man did not fall until the third shot, after

which the murderer turned off the bridge and walked toward the railroad.

    MASIA was found lying face down on the bridge, with one shot entirely

through the body near the heart.

    L. B. SHURTLIFF, night policeman, testified that he was placing another

Mexican in the jail nearby, when he heard the shots and hastened to the

scene, to find MASIA dead and the murderer nowhere to be seen.

    MASIA came up from Sloan Saturday and returned to the camp that night,

to come again Sunday.  But little is known of him.

    The murderer has not been apprehended.













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