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=58288 Submitted by: deesar Article Title: Stockton Daily Independent Article Date: January 1867 Article Description: January 3-5, 1867 Article Text: >>THURSDAY, 3 JAN 1867>FRIDAY, 4 JAN 1867>SATURDAY, 5 JAN 1867Illinois and Wisconsin papers please copy.] [The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock this morning from the M.E. Church, corner of Weber avenue and San Joaquin street. Friends and acquaintances of the deceased are invited to attend.] A GOOD MAN GONE -- Rev. C.R. HENDRICKSON, D.D., for nearly 5 years the pastor of the First Baptist Church, has taken his departure for San Francisco, there to reside permanently. The reverend gentleman has left many friends in Stockton, who sincerely regret that he has chosen a new field of usefulness. A SERIOUS CHARGE -- Yesterday morning it was currently rumored in the streets that Kinsey LANIUS was accused of setting fire to a dwelling house on Lindsay's Point, on New Year's day, and that a warrant had been issued for his arrest. It was soon found that Henry BIGELOW, agent of the Pacific Insurance Company, in San Francisco, had entered a complaint before Justice Baldwin on Thursday evening, when the warrant was placed in the hands of an officer. Up to a late hour last night, however, LANIUS had not been arrested, and the opinion generally prevailed that he had left the city. One officer went in the direction of Woodbridge and not learning that the party he was seeking had traveled that way, he took the Upper Sacramento road, but returned without any prisoner. Another officer started out on the Mokelumne Hill and likewise on the Sonora road, but had not returned late in the evening. The motive which prompted the act cannot, it appears, be reasonably accounted for. If gui! lty at all, his object must have been to destroy his own property, which was insured, it is said, for *less* than its real value. However, his arrest and a judicial investigation are the only means of determining his guilty or innocence; and we will await the action of the officers and Courts. The affair created quite a sensation. BY STATE TELEGRAPH, San Francisco, Jan. 4 -- A few minutes after 12 o'clock this noon, the occupants of the building on the SW corner of Sacramento and Kearny streets were startled by the report of a pistol in the room of General C.H.S. WILLIAMS, of the law firm of Williams & Churchill, and upon proceeding to the scene of the explosion, found General WILLIAMS lying upon his back, in an apparently insensible condition. By his side lay a soft hat, the one which he was accustomed to wear, the crown torn to pieces, and a discharged derringer pistol. Physicians were immediately sent for, who made an examination of the wounded man, when it was found that he had been shot in the top or crown of his head. It was evident from the first that the wound was a fatal one, and it was soon pronounced by the physicians. The act is supposed to have been done while he was laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, brought about by a disease of the liver, with which he has long been afflicted.! General C.H.S. WILLIAMS was born in New Hampshire, and studied law with the late Hon. Fletcher M. HAIGHT, in Rochester, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of New York, about 1832, and commenced practice in Cazenovia, Madison county, N.Y., and afterwards practiced in Fredonia and Buffalo, N.Y. He came to California in 1853 and remained in this city [San Francisco] until 1861, when he went to Washoe, whence he returned during the past year. He was a member of the State Senate 1 year, and was one of the most successful practitioners at the California bar. --------------------------------------------------------- THE MURDER at MARTINEZ -- Our readers will remember that a few days since the telegraph made mention of the murder and robbery of an old lady at Martinez. A late number of the Oakland 'News' has the following in reference to the horrible affair: There has been living for some time, near Martinez, an old lady, some 70 years old, a Mrs. KELLEY. She lived alone and was supposed to have considerable money. She was respected by all the community. On the night of the 25th, some person entered her house through a window and murdered her. Her throat was severed by a large knife, and there was a big gash behind the ear. One of her hands was very badly cut, and a finger was split, as if she had made powerful efforts in self-defence. Several persons have been arrested. George SWAIN, Deputy Sheriff of Contra Costa, learned that there had been an Indian drunk that night. He went to his cabin and on searching it found a large knife and 3 loaves of bread. By the manner in which 1 of them had been cut it was identified as one that the old lady had made, in her own house, previous to her death. Under the Indian's bed was found a shirt having upon its bosom the imprint of 5 bloody fingers. SWAIN took the man in charge, and he is now ! imprisoned in Martinez. The Indian has lived there a long time and is well known. The gentleman who wrote to us these particulars, obtained them from Mr. SWAIN directly, and there can be no doubt as to their correctness. --------------------------------- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com