This is the third and final part of “The Cosumnes Tragedy,” which was in the July 3, 1852 edition of Sacramento’s “The Daily Union,” On trial was a Frenchman who was accused of killing a “Chinaman” at Big Bar, a…
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Criminal Annals, Part 74 -The Cosumnes Tragedy (Continued)
This is the second part of “The Cosumnes Tragedy,” which was in the July 3, 1852 edition of Sacramento’s “The Daily Union,” On trial was a Frenchman, referred to as Monsieur Raymond alias Rogers, who was accused of killing a…
Criminal Annals, Part 73 – The Cosumnes Tragedy
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…
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…