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…
Category: Criminal Annals
Ceiminal Annals, Part 69 -Troubles in Placerville
The April 28, 1860 edition of the “Mountain Democrat” has an interesting note regarding a meeting of local Placerville citizens “to rid themselves of a certain class of suspicious characters.” The meeting involves people living in the Cedar and Spanish…
Criminal Annals, Part 68 – Two California Stories (Continued)
Last time we left off at a point in the story regarding a murder in the mining camp of Ringgold with Jerry Crane having fired his pistol three times at Miss Susan Newnham. She was the lady with whom he…
Criminal Annals, Part 67 – Two California Stories
In some papers loaned to me by former teacher Tom Carpender, who is a member of an El Dorado County pioneer family, is a story titled, “Two Stories of California Life” by ‘Beverly Washington. It was on faded and mottled…