I opine Wincklepleck was guilty of good looks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Loose" <betty@unisette.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 3:10 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Union July 2 1880 Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday July 2, 1880 EMOTIONAL INSANITY A Sacramento jury has just acquitted Mrs. HAMILTON, who was put on trial for attempting to murder a young girl named Nettie WINCKLEPLECK. The defendant, as was alleged under the influence of jealousy, fired a pistol at the girl several times, inflicting severe wounds upon her. The defense was "emotional insanity;" the most (not legible) and comprehensive one imaginable, since nobody can define it, and not two medical men can be got to agree upon what constitutes it. We cannot be sure that the jury in this case accepted the plea of emotional insanity. They may have believed that the defendant was justified in trying to kill the girl, for juries are proverbially eccentric in their views. But the plea itself is one which might easily appeal to ignorant minds, and the whole subject of insanity is so difficult and obscure that lawyers may puzzle even intelligent juries by merely citing conflicting authorities upon it. The question of responsibility in connection with mental disease has, however, been ably and exhaustively treated by Maudaley, who is unquestionably the highest authority upon mental pathology and physiology now living. His conclusion is, broadly speaking, that when crime is committed in a thoroughly deliberate and purposeful manner, and when the alleged or presumptive motive of the crime is such as to appear reasonable to sane minds, the responsibility of the criminal ought to be assumed, even though the presence of an hereditary tendency to mania may be demonstrated. It has for sometime been apparent that some such line would have eventually to be drawn, for the loose and convenient phrase ìemotional insanityî can be made to fit any conceivable circumstances. All that is required is to assume that a person may become mad for a moment, during which the crime is committed, and then revert to sanity, and any case whatever may thus be covered. The relations of insanity to jurisprudence have in fact never yet been properly defined or established, and one result is that a great many flagrant failures of justice constantly occur. Emotional insanity is far too vague and misty a plea to be allowed, if murders and murderous assaults are to be discouraged, and in all probability it will be found necessary before long to adopt Maudaley's suggestion in regard to the limits of responsibility in mental disease. PACIFIC COAST ITEMS The town of Santa Clara has a population of 2,402. A Republican campaign paper is to be started in Los Angeles. Bodie has collected $1,324 for the celebration on the Fourth. A house in Tombstone, A.T., 40 by 80 feet in size, rents for $500 per month. Large quantities of fruit are being shipped from Los Angeles to Arizona. A band of 4,000 head of sheep lately passed through Palisade, Nev., on the way to Colorado. Theodore WINTERS, the well known horseman of Nevada, has sold 175 horses, at $20 each, for Montana. Forty-five emigrant wagons, northward bound, passed through Ashland, Or., in the past two weeks. Dr. GLENN has something over 47,000 acres of wheat to cut this season, and this will be the biggest crop he ever had. The census, as near as can now be determined, will show the population of Fresno county to be considerably over 10,000. Two hundred Chinamen were mustered at the Glenn ranch on Sunday, to commence work in the harvest-field the next morning. It is claimed that portions of Arizona can produce earlier peaches than the Vacaville and Marysville regions of this State, and orchards are being planted. The Bodie Railroad, building from Carson, is experiencing much difficulty in getting Chinamen at reasonable wages, the supply not equaling the demand. Many remains of mastodon have been found on the Nome Lacke reservation in Tehama county. It is said that the whole region is worth the attention of scientists. The Lewiston (Idaho) Teller says that two young women, who live near Palouysi bridge, recently administered a sound thrashing to a man who had slandered them. The annual Cornish wrestling matches will be held in Grass Valley, commencing on the 5th of July, and lasting three days. Cash prizes amounting to $280 will be distributed. A great many fine cattle and some valuable horses at Tonto Basin, Arizona, are dying of a peculiar disease, which resembles the black- leg, the animal being perfectly black inside when cut open. In Montana June 15th five miners, who were returning from the Yogo mines, were surprised, while asleep in their camp, by a party of masked highwaymen, who shot one of them and robbed the others of $400. In Arizona recently, near Tempe, a Mexicanís dog treed a large California lion. The man was unarmed, save with a large butcher knife, but nothing daunted, and knowing where he could sell the skin for $1, he whipped out his knife, started up the tree and killed the beast. The lion measured about eight feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. The Silverthorn Murder Case at Shasta. SHASTA, July 1st - The evidence in the SILVERTHORN murder case closed to-day. The jury has been taken to Pit river to view the scene of the alleged homicide, and argument will commence to-morrow. This is the sixteenth day since the first juror was sworn. Drowned in Gold Lake. SIERRA CITY, July 1st - James DIXON, a native of Westchester county, New York, aged about 55 years, was drowned in Gold Lake yesterday by the ice giving away and precipitating him into the water while fishing. Mr. DIXON was a member of Colonel STEVENSON's regiment, which came to California in 1847. NEVADA A State Prisoner Murdered by a Fellow Convict. CARSON, July 2st - W.R. CHAMBERLAIN, a convict, was killed at the State Prison to-day by John R. DARIING, alias "Rattlesnake Dick," his pal in a robbery case four years ago. He was killed with a pickax. Passengers Passing Carlin for California. CARLIN, July 1st - The following passengers passed Carlin to-day to arrive in Sacramento to-morrow: G. CONKLING, Salt Lake City; Mrs. W. CRAIG, Miss Eva WHITE, Denver Col.; W.S. GODBIE, Miss T. GODBIE, W.J. MONTGOMERY and wife, Master Walter MONTGOMERY, Salt Lake City; M.R. HECHT, Allen St. J. BOWIE, Miss May PARROTT, Miss I. PARROTT, Miss BROADHEAD, Miss MARTIN, Miss L. BROADHEAD, Jacob HARRIS, C.J. SIMON, G.F. GIESSE, F.M. PIXLEY, S.M. WILSON, M.S. WILSON, S MOSGROVE, H.J. TILDEN, wife and nurse, William H. CROCKER, J.C. FLOOD and family, San Francisco; seven Sisters of Charity, California; J.M. ANDERSON, New Jersey, H.C. BIDWELL, Oakland; Mrs. E. ANODD, Portland, Or.; H.M. BILLINGS and wife, C.H. KEMPON, New York; D.J. PAGE, wife and family, Gold Hill; A. KEEFER, Australia; E.P. HASTINGS, Utah; Marquis DECAMOTTE, Viscount DeGALARD, Baron Martin DUNORD, Frank ROSE, Paris, France; E. MURTEL, Elko, Nev.; 68 emigrants, including 50 males, to arrive in Sacramento July 3d. OREGON PORTLAND, July 1st - A man named Samuel DERRICK committed suicide near Weston, in Umatilla county, on the 29th ultimo, by taking two ounces of chloroform. DERROCK had been in poor health for a long time, and becoming despondent, committed the rash deed. SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS [From San Francisco exchanges of July 1st.] The stock boards will adjourn at the close of business to-morrow afternoon until Wednesday, July 7th. The stockholders of the Firemanís Fund Insurance Company have voted to increase the capital from $300,000 to $750,000. On hundred and ninety-four marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk last month, yielding a revenue of $194 to the city treasury. During the last half of June only $71,925 in gold coin and $53,980 in greenbacks was sent to New York from San Franfsico through the express company. The Free Library was reopened this morning as a circulating library, after having been closed some weeks for alterations. The system of loaning books will be by ìborrowerísî cards. The exchanges at the San Francisco Clearing house for June were $38,163,300, and the balances $9,512,400 against $46,581,900 exchanges and $10,675,000 balances for the same month last year. There is a very good reason to believe that Governor PERKINS has decided to remove Louis KAPLAN from the office of Registrar of Voters, and that he has tendered the position to another - a Republican. The new contract for performing the United States mail service in this city that is, the carrying of mail matter to and from the railroad depots and steamer landings to the central office, and between the central office and branch stations - went into effect to- day. ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- 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