This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Weeks, Newley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5376 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Sun., 7 February 1875, p. 1, c. 5 Rockdale, Feb. 6 - C. W. Weeks, known as “California Bill,” proprietor of a hash house, was shot to death yesterday by one Newley, a butcher, who took this method of collecting a debt of $20 for beef furnished to said California Bill’s has house. This is the only murder that has ever been committed in this place. = = = = Galveston Daily News – Wed., 13 February 1875, p. 2, c. 3 C. W. Weeks, familiarly called “California,” was shot and killed by Bill Newley, last Friday night, in Rockdale, Newley escaped.