On July 16 Harry T."Mac" McCarty had just come up the street and stepped into the long Branch Saloon. While he leaned on the bar talking to Mr.Jackson (the paper reports): " A half drunken desperado...snatched Mac's pistol, a 45 caliber Colt, from the scabbard, and as Mac turned to see who had so nimbly disarmed him,the assassin, giving the weapon a flourish or two, fired the fatal shot. The ball penetrated the right groin, severing the femoral artery, thence passing through the thigh lodged in the floor. The deceased staggered toward the door where he fell". McCarty died within a few minutes.