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When Sam Gover, relating to Larose on the spot, the details of the shooting that ended in Eli Barton being murdered and one assailant wounded, was asked did he kill the bandit, Gover shook his head.
"No, I am sure I didn't kill him," he said. "Too much squeal about him for anyone vitally hurt. I don't believe even that I hit him anywhere except in one of his limbs." The old man paused for a moment and then went on thoughtfully. "It's like this. Whenever I have thought things over since it always seems to me that I must have hit a bone somewhere, because the man was instantly in pain. He cried out just as a man often does when he's hit that way."