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 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…
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…