A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Joaquin http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=592 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=32178 Submitted by: deesar Article Title: Stockton Daily Argus Article Date: July 1861 Article Description: July 29-31, 1861 Article Text: >>Monday, 29 July 1861>Tuesday, 30 July 1861TWO SHOOTING SCRAPES occurred in Sacramento, 1 on Saturday morning, the other on Saturday evening, 28th inst. In the first that occurred in a coffee saloon, H.S. CAULFIELD was badly wounded, and one of his adversaries was cut with a sword. In the other case, 2 hotel runners, named Patrick HOLLAND and Samuel VAN PRAGG fired pistols at each other, the ball of 1 striking the heel of a deck hand of the steamer Antelope. No other damage done. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY -- From the Marysville ‘Democrat’ we learn that Mrs. BOYCE left Shasta and her husband, with 2 children, aged 2 and 3 years respectively, and went to Oroville where she met a man named MORGAN, who had been in her husband’s employ a year or more. They passed themselves as man and wife assume the name of Mr.&Mrs. SMITH, and under this name they reached Marysville. BOYCE followed his wife, had MORGAN arrested, and fired a pistol at him without effect just before the examinations. BOYCE then went to the room of his wife, drew a 6-shooter and fired twice at her without effect, when she ran into the hall followed by the youngest daughter. The husband ran after her and fired again, and missing the woman, the ball striking the little girl in the right shoulder, the bullet passing around and lodging just under the skin above the left shoulder blade, not making a dangerous wound. The woman then ran into a room where there was a lady with a young child in her arm! s, and grasping the lady, held her tightly. BOYCE followed, grasped the lady by the arm, and reaching over both, shot his wife in the back, the ball entering near the left shoulder blade, and ranging downwards. BOYCE was then seized and taken to jail. The woman is considered in a critical condition. The surgeons had not succeeded in finding the ball. FOUND GUILTY -- BONNEY, tried in San Francisco for the murder of HIRSCH, whom he killed in a carriage while riding with him at San Leandro, has been pronounced guilty of murder in the 1st degree. The jury were out 3 hours. BONNEY made a speech declaring his innocence. ACCIDENTS -- -The Sacramento ‘Union’ is informed by a correspondent that William WEBBERLY, of Deadwood, Placer county, while dumping a load of dirt from a railroad car, on the 8th inst., was accidentally thrown from the track to the ground, a distance of 14 feet. The force of the fall broke both bones of 1 leg, and forced the shin bone through the skin, his drawers, and to the extent of an inch through his boot leg. The hill where the accident occurred is very precipitous and continuing its motion the body rolled between 30 and 40 feet further down the hill, subsequent to the accident, with the bones protruding. -William SCHNAUFFER, while working on his claim in El Dorado canon, Placer county, on the 10th, had one of his legs crushed with a rock, fracturing both bones, and lacerating the skin and bruising the muscles in a horrible manner. The day of the accident was excessively warm, the thermometer standing at 102 deg. in the shade; and as he lay upon the ground with the middle portion of the leg ground to pulp, a cup shape cavity which occupied the place of the fractured bones filled with blood, upon the top of which floated globules of oil caused by the marrow melted with the excessive heat, the mutilated limb presented a sigh dreadful to behold. Immediate amputation below the knee was performed by Dr. FAVOR, of Michigan Bluff, and the patient is recovering. >>Wednesday, 31 July 1861A LITTLE GIRL aged 7 years was knocked down by a runaway horse in San Francisco Monday evening injuring her so that it was necessary to remove 2 inches of her skull. She may recover. Her father’s name is A. BOOTZ. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com