The Contra Costa Gazette Martinez, Contra Costa County, California Saturday, 29 AUGUST 1874 ************************************************* DIED - REINHART - In Clayton, Aug. 24, Estella, daughter of James and Adelia REINHART, aged 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks. [She has gone to bloom in Heaven.] ----------------------------------------------- HOMICIDE at SAN PABLO - A native California half-breed named Ramon CHAVIS, was shot by Constable John WILCOX, at San Pablo last Sunday night about 11 o'clock, and died without having spoken, about 8 o'clock the following morning. Coroner HILLER was summoned by telegraph to hold an inquest on the body, and the jury found a verdict of justifiable homicide. From the testimony given at the inquest it appears that the deceased had been at the house of WILCOX, drinking and quarreling during the evening, and WILCOX had several times been obliged to intervene to stop fights in which he had engaged. Before the fatal shooting WILCOX had retired to bed, but was called up by some one who said that deceased and some one else were killing somebody. WILCOX got up, partially dressed himself hastily, took his pistol and went out, to find the deceased and another partially drunken man charging their horses and riding over a man they had thrown down in the road, who is a half demented or insane person residing in the place. WILCOX commanded them to desist, when CHAVIS rode off a few yards, wheeled his horse and charged on him. When within a few feet WILCOX fired, and CHAVIS fell with a shot under the eye socket. There seems to have been no one present competent to make any statement of what transpired except WILCOX himself, and his statement s o acc ords with the probabilities of the occurrence that the jury found the shooting justified. ---------------------------------------- PROBATE COURT - -In the matter of the estate of Vincenzo BRUGHELLI. The Administrator, Felix BRUGHELLI, having settled the costs and paid off the debts of the estate in accordance with the decree of settlement of the final account heretofore entered, and having exhibited and filed the money receipts and vouchers therefore, it was ordered that the Administrator be discharged and his bondsmen released. INTERESTING HYMENIAL EVENT - Quite an interest was exhibited in the nuptial ceremonies of LOI MONG and Miss CHUG FU, which were held a few days since at the Chinese Mission House in San Francisco. Both the groom and bride belong to the higher grade of Chinese families; both are well educated, and both have adopted the Christian system of religious belief, the groom having been for a number of years a very efficient missionary teacher among his countrymen in San Francisco. It is said to have been the 1st instance here of the marriage of a Christian Chinaman and a Christian Chinawoman according to the Christian forms. DOUBLE EXECUTION - John BAKER, a white man, and Charles CROUCH, a half-breed Indian, were hanged at Shasta on Wednesday, the former for the murder of a mail carrier in December last, and the latter for the murder of a Mrs. RADLER, a French woman, married to a German, and living on the Sacramento river some 3 miles from Shasta. CROUCH was only about 18 years of age, and committed the murder in January last. A day or 2 afterwards he returned and set fire to the cabin in which the body had remained undiscovered. Transcribed by Dee Sardoch To see more old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/