The July 3, 1852 edition of Sacramento’s “The Daily Union,” has a very interesting, but somewhat lengthy story on a crime that was committed at Big Bar, a mining camp in El Dorado County on the Cosumnes River, east of…
Author: Doug Noble
Criminal Annals, Part 72 – Lynchings at Drytown and Mud Springs
Continuing with the early copies of Sacramento’s first daily newspaper, “The Daily Union,” we go first to the April 30, 1851 edition where there is a story about a murder in the area south of Shingle Springs. “MURDER. – An…
Criminal Annals, Part 71 – Horse Thieves
Continuing with the early copies of Sacramento’s first daily newspaper, “The Daily Union,” in the May 27, 1851 edition we find a story regarding the transporting of accused horse thieves in El Dorado County, which is then followed by another…
Criminal Annals Part 70 – Hanging and a Lynching
Between the date of the last issue of the “Placer Times” in 1850 and the publication of the first issue of the “Mountain Democrat” in 1854, much of the Sacramento area news was printed in various small newspapers, copies of…