~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <betty@unisette.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:11 AM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Bee April 5 `906 > The Evening Bee > Sacramento, Cal. > Thursday, April 5, 1906 > Page 6 > > HARDWICK AND WHITESCARBOR NOT HASKELL'S MURDERERS > Prove Their Innocence to Officers and Will Be Released From Jail > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - Although proved innocent to the > satisfaction > of the peace officers of this county of the murder of Express Messenger > HASKELL and the attempted robbery of the De La Mar stage on October 9th > last, Con. C. HARDWICK and Charles WHITESCARBOR were not released from > jail > to-day, as it was announced last night they would be, and considerable > criticism of District Attorney DOZIER is the result, since he left town to > look after private legal business, it is said, instead of remaining here > to > see that Justice is done as far as is now possible to two innocent men. > Hardwick was arrested here on March 22d, as told in The Bee at the time, > and Whitescarbor at Stockton. The officers seemed to feel sure of their > men > and the public was led to believe that the brutal murderers of brave > Messenger Haskell were at last in custody. But the prisoners have proved > by > well-supported testimony and evidence that they were fully forty miles > away > from the scene of the hold-up and that while the white sombrero found was > at > one time the property of Whitescarbor he had disposed of it three months > before the killing of Haskell. The arresting officers no longer pretend to > believe in the guilt of the men. > Hardwick, Bee readers will recall, was traced through a love affair he > was > carrying on with a Miss KRAMER, and it was at her request, when she > learned > the Sheriff was looking for him, that he applied at the Court House to > learn > what was wanted. He was promptly placed under arrest, but assured the > officers and his sweetheart that a terrible mistake had been made. He has > now proved it. > Whitescarbor was arrested by Stockton police and turned over to Sheriff > RICHARDSON, who brought him to Red Bluff, where he was kept over night and > subjected to a lot of questioning. He was then brought to this city, where > he and Hardwick have since been confined in the County Jail. > The two men will be released to-morrow beyond doubt. It is felt here that > it is adding injury to injury to keep them behind bars when their > innocence > is no longer denied. > > TEAM AND WAGON DOWN HIGH GRADE > Driver Badly Injured, Two Horses Crushed To Death and Freight Scattered > Over > the Mountain Side > OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 5 - Another accident occurred yesterday on the > Big Bar grade, one of the most dangerous on the river - so much so in > fact, > that few teamsters will risk their lives by teaming on it. > R.J. HASKINS was descending the grade with a six-horse team, having two > of > the wheels locked with chains. When half way down, one of the chains broke > and the team was unable to hold the heavy wagon back. It kept crowding on > to > the animals, and becoming frightened, they swerved to one side over the > grade and the wagon capsizing, pinning two horses under it and crushing > the > life out of them. > Hasking was thrown from the wagon and narrowly escaped suffering the fate > of the two horses. > Luckily when the wagon capsized it lodged against two large pines, > preventing the whole outfit from rolling into the canyon hundreds of feet > below. > The wagon was loaded with picks, shovels and other tools and about twenty > kegs of nails, many of which were broken open as they rolled down the > hill, > scattering nails everywhere. > Haskins, with a badly-wrenched back, managed to get down to the camp and > a > force of men was sent up to collect the scattered freight. > Five head of horses have been killed this season in nearly the same spot > where Haskins met with the accident. > > Lost His Money > MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 5 - Rev. J.W. DANIELS, who is canvassing this > section for funds in aid of a Children's Home Finding Society, has asked > the > authorities to help him locate $45 in currency which he says he lost in > Wheatland. He was careless enough to lose his pocketbook containing his > treasure. When the pocketbook was recovered the currency was not in it, > and > there is no trace of the party who came into possession of it. > > Out on Bonds, Pack Gets in Jail Again > CHICO (Butte Co.), April 5 - Barney PACK, a well-known resident of Dayton, > a > small town six miles from Chico, and a professed Socialist, who frequently > speaks on Chico's streets, is now in the Chico Jail with a charge placed > against his name. Pack was arrested yesterday on a charge of disturbing > the > peace, but was released upon securing bonds for $100. He went to his home > at > Dayton, and, it is alleged, drove his wife and daughter out of the house > by > threatening to kill them if the charge against him, which was made by his > brother-in-law, was not removed. Upon another complaint he was rearrested > and charged with assault. His bonds were placed this time at $5000. > > PROTECTED BY FULL RECEIPT > After Twenty Years English Heirs of Modoc Estate Demand Returns, Only To > Learn Money is Gone > ALTURAS (Modoc Co.), April 5- Had not William T. CRESSLER, of Cedarville, > away back in 1885, taken the precaution to require of Charles MASON, at > that > time British Consul at San Francisco, an affidavit as to his power of > attorney to act in the matter of the estate of George MALE, and also > secured > from him a receipt for certain money paid over, he to-day would stand > responsible for the sum of $2378, with interest for all these years. > By will, Male left his estate to relatives in England, and appointed > Cressler executor. It required about three years to settle the property, > and > when all debts were paid a balance in cash remained of $2378. Cressler > took > this sum to Consul Mason, to be forwarded to England, taking a receipt for > the money. He then returned to Cedarville, and thought little more about > the > matter. > But now, after all these years, a demand has come to him from a firm of > English solicitors for a settlement. It is claimed that Consul Mason, who > is > now dead, having committed suicide, it is said, never remitted to the > heirs > of Male, the money having been squandered in riotous living in San > Francisco. But however that may be, Cressler is safe, the papers he > secured > from the Consul protecting him amply. > In a case of this kind, it is said the British Government must stand > responsible, since its agent in the discharge of his official duties > proved > derelict. > > Leason Will Die of His Injuries > LAMOINE (Siskiyou Co.), April 5 - Oscar LEASON, of 3026 I Street, > Sacramento, who fell from a flume near here last Monday, as told in The > Bee > at the time, and received terrible injuries, will not recover, say the > doctors at the company's hospital at this place. His back was broken and > hope has been abandoned. > Leason, with a companion or two, was walking along the flume on his way > from the mill to Lamoine, a distance of about five miles. He had gone but > a > little way, when, as he was crossing a trestle, he missed his footing and > fell to the rocks thirty feet below. He lay there in an unconscious > condition until help could be summoned to carry him to the hospital here. > His family was notified at once, and several of them at once hurried to > his > bedside. > > Saved the Stage > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - News has reached Redding of the narrow > escape of a stageload of passengers traveling from Delta to Trinity > Center. > The stage left the latter place on its usual run yesterday and had aboard > six passengers besides the driver. When approaching the Tollhouse, about > six > miles from Delta, the kingbolt of the vehicle dropped from its place and > immediately the front trucks ran from under the stage. Among the > passengers > were three tourists from Kansas and one of them, seeing the need for > prompt > action, jumped from the stage and by superhuman effort stopped its > momentum > just at the edge of a steep embankment. A serious accident was averted, > for > there is a hillside drop of about 100 feet at the spot where the stage > stopped. > > One More Wreck > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - One more wreck has been added to the long > list of Winter accidents on the railroad through this section. It occurred > yesterday evening at the same point near Cantara where a wreck took place > last Friday. Freight train No. 221 was derailed, tearing up the track for > quite a distance and putting a stop to travel. The southbound Oregon > express > is ten hours late. No one was injured. > > Wrecks House > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - A huge pine tree fell, crashing through > the > house of Mrs. Mary FRICKEY, near Shingletown, Tuesday. Nita CUNNINGHAM had > just arisen when she saw the tree falling. Shrieking a warning to Mrs. > Frickey and her son, the girl ran to the door, but could not get out. She > sank into a corner just as the tree crashed through the roof, tearing out > the door and smashing the bed on which the girl had lain. The house is a > complete wreck. > > MONEY-PAYING SLOT MACHINE > Redding Hotel Man Arrested For Keeping Device In Saloon, And Bitter Fight > In > Court Is Promised > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - Henry CLINESCHMIDT, proprietor of the > Temple > Hotel here, and one of the best-known bonifaces in Superior California, > was > placed under arrest yesterday for keeping a coin-paying slot machine in > the > saloon of his place of business. He was released upon his own > recognizance, > and announces that he will fight the case to the bitter end. > Clineschmidt makes no denial of the charge, nor does he say that his > conduct was not illegal, but he asserts that, as an example, the town of > Kennett is allowed to run on a "wideopen" basis, and that he objects to > being signalled out when such violations of the law as he is charged with > and worse are permitted elsewhere without protest on the part of > officials. > He is not willing to be made a scapegoat, he declares, and will fight the > case from start to finish. > Clineschmidt's defiance, in addition to his prominence here, has aroused > much public interest in Redding, and the proceedings in Court will be > followed closely, especially by the gambling fraternity of this and other > towns, who see in the promised contest danger for themselves. > > MOTHER CLAIMS HER BABY GIRL > Court Gives Her Child Whom Good People Had Cared For, But Without Having > Ever Legally Adopted > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 - Even officers of the law, inured to scenes > of all kinds, were affected yesterday afternoon in the Superior Court here > when Judge BUSH directed that little 5-year-old Wilma MORGAN, despite her > tears and entreaties, be returned to her mother's care, leaving good > Orville > SMITH and wife, who had tended her almost since very babyhood, desolate > and > full of grief. > Some years ago Mrs. Morgan's husband was killed. He left her with five > children and scanty or no means of support. Mr. and Mrs. Smith attracted > by > bright little Wilma, took the child to their home and there brought her > up. > But they failed to take out regular papers of adoption, and that is why > Mrs. > Morgan, who suddenly concluded a few days ago that she wanted her girl > with > her, was given a decision by the Court. > The woman has all she can do now to care for her family, and Wilma would > be much better off with the Smiths. > Young Woman Will Preach the Sermon > GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 5 - The remarkable spectable of a girl in > the pulpit will be witnessed in this city on Good Friday, when Miss hazel > BAWDEN, a charming young woman, born and reared here, will deliver a > sermon. > Miss BAWDEN is an elocutionist of great ability and is at present taking a > course in the Grass Valley Business College. She is an attractive, merry, > brown-eyed girl and the announcement that she is to preach on the occasion > stated, has sent something of a thrill over the town. The sermon which > Miss > Bawden has chosen was written and delivered by Dr. John A.B. WILSON many > years ago. It is beautifully worded and gives rare opportunity for > elocutionary effect. Dr. Wilson, pastor of the local Methodist Church, > conceived the idea of Miss Bawden giving the sermon and after due > consideration she agreed. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >