Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
On 15 December 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Legislative Council of the territory of New Mexico, fired a bullet from a revolver and killed the opinionated, fiery, and sharp-tongued chief justice of the supreme court-John Potts Slough. Before the shot, Slough exclaimed, "Shoot and be damned!" (p. 70). Mortally wounded, he pulled a derringer from his vest pocket and let it fall to the floor. So ended the career of Chief Justice Slough.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.