March 10, 1883 (4 pages)

ction. s pricés KY, jlish ns, 2) _ Opening and Clos Closing of Mails. Until . further notice the mails will close as Sie-ra City via North San ville aud Downieville, daily isan, Com exceptim at6 a. uM. jue Tent, ‘oore’s Flat . North Bl M and Graniteville, Saregg: oor excepted) fat Coe. y, Thurs‘ashington Tuesda; day and atéa You Bat, Lilie ‘Ye York’ and Dutch Flat » Wednesday and Friday, at 6 4. m. Tromas Mery, P. u. eee WHAT THEY ARB DOING. Persenal and Social Items Glean<d' * Mere and There. . Mra. Fred. Brown of Oakland is visiting with her nother, Mrs. John Hamiltoh of this city. Marcella, daughter of Mrs. M. S. Deal, is seriously ill with inflamma‘tory rheumatism. She is in San Francisco, ‘ ore Duhain of Yuba ootnty and A.-B. Brown, two of Smartsville’s wideawake citizens, were in town yesterday. Mrs. John Pattison of San Fran, eisee is expected to arrive here next week ona visit. She will be the guest of Mrs. Dr. R. M. Hunt. rasases coateaaees Pp “Should Heed the ‘Lesson. Jiadge McFarland’s « deciaon in the Sacramento slickens case struck. the . anti-miners between wind and, water. Tt was a reasonable, intelligent and lawful finding, and goes to show, as ‘we have from time to time asserted, that no competent and just Judge will ‘aid the apti-miners in their work of destruction. Again we advise Cadwalader,McClatchy & Co., to stop ’ wasting their time and taxing.our patience in trying to accomplish that which is physically and legally im-. ' possible, viz: the ruination of the s, S gold-producing industry. There may be money in the course they have been pursuing, but in the end they, will find themselves cursed by the very men whose cause they now pretend to be earnest advocates of. Red Men in Council. The Red Men of. Wyoming Tribe hadan extra good time Thursday evening, on the occasion of the official visitation to their wigwam of Great Sachem Spencer from Sacramento, accompanied by Adam Smith, Great Prophet of the Reservation of at the Hall on Broad street they adjourned to the National Hotel where _ they were joined by the lady members of their families and a few other invited gueste, and partook of a splendid collation served in thé best atyle of that popular house. =; BRIEF MENTION. — RSL ne NRE Various Happenings In and @ut of Towns Chase & Morgan, the painters, are making an esthetic new sign for Carr . Brothers, the druggists. In Justice Blakey’s court night before last Paul Cirack was finea $6 for disturbing the peace. Frank Guild will have an auction sale this evening in the building formerly known as Coe’s shoe store. Uncle Manuel el Disgusted. Uncle Manuel, the local celebrity, is talking of going ont of business in the weather prophesying line. He says so many frauds like Vennor and Wiggins and the United States Signal Service ‘‘professors” are hanging out their shingles in the same line _ that the science is losing what litt'e smattering of respectability it hitherto enjoyed, “Accepted the Invitation. The Nevada City Glee Club, which. includes among its members‘some of the best vocalists in the county, both male and female, has accepted the invitation to sing at the Odd Fellows’ celebration here on the 26th of April. A namber of beautiful songs will be rendered by the organization. Ditch Completed. The South Yuba Company’s new ditch has had the finishing touches put en it from Quaker Mfill as far down as the Idaho Reservoir, and a full head of water was turned. into it day before yesterday. It is pronounced by competent judges to be a first-class piece of work. EEE Horsferd’s Acid Phosphate in Abuse . of Alcohol. Dr. Jno. P. Wheeler, Hudson, N. Y., says: “I have given it with present decided benefit.in a case of innutrition of the brain, from abuse of alcohol.” ©. WHEN your wife’s health is bad, when your children are,sickly, when you feel worn out, use Brown's Iron Bitters. . House Wanted. _ A house of 5 or 6 rooms, favorably situated. Permanent tenant. Enquire of-Brand & Bro. tf CarLpren’s pictures cs lane: . ‘taneously by Swart, Nevada City. tf For Photogray hs go, to Swart, Broad street, Nevada City. £20-tf. Te 5 ohn from the errors and indigretons af you nervous weak: pi ost 8 Ss tees Amacice, ALong Day's Work— Rogar W. . good opportunity to see what wa: . wanted for the Nevada county stage . me if it wasn’t a cool job, 1 told THE COLLINS CASE. ces oe O’Meara Graphically Relates How Collins Confessed’to Him —Jim Cramm’s Story Begua. There were very few spectators present when Court opened yesterday morning, but during the forenoon they flocked in till many could not fiud seats. In the afternoon there was quite a rush. The chief event of the day was the testimony of Roger W. O’Meara, one of the most important witnesses for the prosecution. He told a straightforward story of intense interest that lost nothing in his method of presenting it. He is apparently a man of more than common. intelligence, and possesses besides good descriptive powers, a true Irish wit the exercise of which. during bis cross-examination enabled him to give the learned counsel for the defense a Roland for every Oliver. Upon the opening of the morning sessien _ MISS. HANNAH SKAEHAN Was the first witness, She testified substantially as follows: To Mr. Gaylord—I reside bere. In 18791 was teaching school at Moore’s Flat. On -Septeniber firstof— that year was a passenger on the stage to this city with William F. Cun mings and others. The stage was stopped 3or 4 miles from this place by two masked men. We were coming up the hil) when two men, one with a shotgun and one with a pistol, came out and halted us, gers to dismount. One of the men said for me to‘ stay on the outside seat where I was, and the other said to get down. I asked what I should do, The man with the gan said, ‘4 say for the lady to stay there.” The one with the pistol examined the baggage, and mail, and express matter. [Witness described the scuffle between Cummings and: the: robber, and the killing of the former.] The robber with the pistol kicked the valise open ‘and took out two package: wrapped in barley sacking. I saw Mr. Cummings’ watch when he looked at it at Blve Tent. It was alarge gold watch, I cannot describe the dress or size of the mea. Cross-examined by Mr. Walling— Being on the outside-seat~I"had a going on. The man with the gun passed close to the stage when he; went back and shot Cummings. 1 did not make up my mind then that I had seen one of the robbers before. T have talked with Captain Aull but once as to the particulars about the robbery. He showed me the photograph of Thorn when they were brought here. Ltold him about the robbery the ‘sane asl have Mi: Gaylord now. No one has asked me what I would testify to. I may Have talked with Hamilton MeCormick’s family-about it long ago. I did not tell them I had an impression I knew one of the men. I did not tell them Thad been instructed only to testify in regard towhat 1 was asked. I have been at their house only ‘two times or so in three years. I was excited during the robbery. They made me keep my hands up hike the others, and I thought if they did that there was danger They’ were doing some talking, the one with the pistol doing the most of it. I did not observe anything peculiar in their voices. Most that they said was very commanding. I did not tell McCormick’s family I heard one of them say ‘“‘Have you got it.” I am quite sure when the robber broke the valise open it was with hig foot. I did not see him use a knife. One of the robbers was a little taller than the-other. The one with the gan seemed to be the fleshier and the shorter,although there was not much difference in hight. Mr, Cumminys was heavier than the man he fought with. JONAH WITTER Testified as follows: To Mr. Gayseine’ at Kentucky Flat, this count: eptember Ist, 1879, I mov:d ‘some goods from there to Bloomfield for a man named Falck. While traveling the Selby Flat road I saw two men crossing the road to-, wards the Yuba, one of them walking straight ahead and the other going backwards arid covering up his tracks in the dust. [Defense objected to identification of Thorn as one of the men till a: conspiracy was shown between him and Collins, and witness was temporarily withdrawn. ] ROGER W. O’MEARA Testified as folows: To Mr. Gaylord—Reside at San Francisco: Was in the St. Louis Jail before coming there last October. First met defendant in San Francisco jail in February, 1876. Knew him-in the St. Louis jail, where we had conversations about the subject matter of this trial, these being had during recess hours and being voluntary on his part. I have no interests in this suit. I was never offered a reward or favors, :This subject was. first brought to my notice June 5th, 1882. -I.was that day locked'up in the jail. At recess I was approached ‘and accosted by Collins, He cautioned me not to call him Patterson. He called me into his cell and asked me what was thought of him in Cal. ifornia. Isaid ‘You and Thorn are robbery.” He flushed and seemed in distress. We went out iu the corridor and walked, and he asked ‘down.” They ordered the passen. “tof Thorn and Collins. him yes and reliearsed the incidents ‘of it, When I said ‘Cu:minings got the robber down,” he interrapted me saying, ‘‘The robber got Cummings I sad, ‘You seem to be posted.” He saidy ‘‘Why shouldn't Ibe, for I was there.” [Witness then related how at different times in jail there Collins had told him in detail of his experience after he got out of San Queritin up to the time of his incarceration.in St Louis jail, Aocording to it, Thorn was the one who fired the gun and Collins the one who scoffed with Cummings.} He told me after killing Cummings and while fleeing with the bullion they met two men he feared might identify them. Six weeks after it was known here that Collins was in’ St, Louis Jail, but before they know the circumstances of this confession defendant saw a publication in a St Louis paper that led him to charge me with giving him away to the California officers. He wrung his hands and was in great distress. He said had Cummings given the Ma. sonic cry of distress he would sot have been killed. He (Collins) claimed to me to be a Mason. He said he told the Sacramento druggist that the nugget-came fram Michigan Bar, but that it was the melted cases ef a watch taken at the robbery. I sent word to the California officers to ask if they wanted Collins, They them the statements made to me_ by Vollins. I was in jail at St Louis on a charge of burglary. While drunk and in broad daylight I had smashed a store window, I was released on my own recognizance, Cross-examined by Mr. Walling }. —I was convicted once only of a felony. It was in San Francisco April 3d, 1876. In San Quentin I was record clerk in Captain Aull’s office. He had full control of that office, but Capt. Lees was often there and I know him well, I was in Capt Aull’s office about 3 years, After coming out in 1879 I was employed by Carrol Cook at San Francisco till June, 1880. I then went to Tombstone, Arizona, then to Contention, Arizona. I then went to Denver, then. to St, Lonis in February, 1881. [ wes employed at shoveling grain in the St. Louis elevator til March, when I went to Chicago. : In Chicago I was engaged as a reporter for the I}ustrated News, and in addressing newspapér wrappers. In Chicago I was arrested for receiving astolen goods, but the case was stricken from the docket. I did not escape prosecution by turning Stute’s evidence. Ihave been known as R. W. King. In going to Arizona I adopted my mother’s name to luse my identity and begin my_career anew. In St. Louis Jail I gave the name of Williams. I have frequently used the name of Wi!liams in writing for newspapers. Arizona, I was waylaid by a man and shot at three times. I fired at him and killed him. I was honorably acquitted by the Grand Jury and the Tucson Citizen published ap article commending me for giving a notorious desperado (Reddy alias Johnson) his deserts. The yard of the St. Louis Jail where we had these talks was about the square on which this Courthouse is located. About 150 men were there. I was alone meditating when Collias approached me, ['was astran er inastrange land. When he cautioned me about saying Patterson, we went immediately to his cell. It was not an enforce! rule that prisoners while exercising should not go to their éell. Ido not know there.was such arule. Collins wasa favorite prisoner, but I was enly a common one, yet frequently went to my cell when I pleased. Collins oceupied cell 45, I hal 82, being about 150 feet between them. Col lins was occasionally” in company with Benjamin Beaumont, to. whom he intaoduced me after I got in Ja‘l. When we got into his cell June 5th ahd [told him heand Thorn were wanted for the robbery, I thought so from asuggestion made by Captain Aull while I was in his office. James B. Hume requested Aull to have me get the description of all tall men recently discharged. Aull told me to give him the descriptions “I have not had frequent talks © with Capt. Aull about these matters. I have found him very reticent. After giving the descriptions till I.met defendant at St. LouisI had not talked of this matter. I first met these officers when they came to St. Louis last year. I said to him that he was wanted for the Cumuinings murder because I reasoned out that he was I related tohim then incidents of my own career. I told him about goingto Arizoua. At Tombstone I organized an anti-Chinese League, and delivered open air speeches. I also told him of the killing of Reddy. We had some talk that day aboit my arrest in laughing way. Wehad started out into the yard when he asked me if the robbery was not a cool job, We were walking yp and down pretty close to some other men when this conversation occurred, We continued walking till the time of recess. was over. I told him what-I had seen in the newspapers. Ashe said, ‘‘Wasn’t I there?” the whistle blew for the end of recess, The conversation I have stated here was at intervals and occupied-the whole-hour of the recess. I first committed it to writing about six weeks after. I met him next morning. The next morning he ‘told me he was in for robbery, and the police were persecutiug him. He told me they ‘vd brought charges of perjury and’ burglary againat him -said-yes;~Then F-wrote out and sent" {0 Tombstone, when he was acquitted of robbery. He told me ofa safe there he had_ cracked and got forty big dollars ‘from, He said he had been traveling with a lady and had been sick and rapidly spent the money realized from the robbery here. He eaid he didn’t know where Thorn was. ‘He said Thorn qvasa natural born highwayman who never flinched. He spoke of Thorn sending him $25 to go from San Queutin and how they were at Frazev’s. He said he had a pass to go from San Quentin to Reno, Nevada, and sold it at San Francisco, He went to San Joaquin cOunty and met Thorn and Cramm. In Tuolunme county they went to the store of an old man named Fields, tied a boy they found there and while robbing it the old man came back and Thorn shot him in the shoulder. He eaid they went to Marysville and robbed a postoffice of about $500, and then they got rid of Crumm whom he said had no courage. That day I told him I had been living in Chicago and was so snxious to go to work that I took a job at $5 a week. I told bim of aman I met there that I befriended 12 or 14 years.ago in Jackson county, Missouri,when I was Deputy UO. S. Marshal and Deputy Sheriff and he befriended me in Chicago, Il. I met defendant the afternoon of that day. I told him of having a have taken care of. He said prison. er Beaumont had a wife who came there to.see her husband and _shlie would ge and get the valise. He introduced mé to Beaumont, with whom I-became somewhat intimate. We then walked the floor. Beaumont then left us and Collins and I again resumed the talk about the crime. He told me they camped around Grass Valley, coming’ to Nevada occasionally. He said they met an old convict known as Slippery Sam on the night of Kearney’s meeting, and that Sam who was working in a harness shop here complained because some one had given him away. He related to me the particulars.of the robbery and how they took the bullion and made towards Frazee’s. Thora went into Frazee’s to return a shot-gun, and he said that while Thorn was in there Frazee told him about the murder and that he (Thorn) might be suspected, I told him that day that in Chicago I delivered a lecture befure a labor organization and“ became acquainted with some very respectable people, including a lady to whom [became engaged to be married. I also told him that I got on a spree in consequence.AFTERNOON SESSION, Cross examination of Roger W. O’Meara continued—[The defendant wrote as follows at°'Mr. Walling’s dictation < “St. Lovts, “Mo. July 24th, 1882. Hon: Geg. C, Perkins, Governor Cala. Dear Sir---It is rumored that Iam the person who gave information to the effect that one JohnC., P. Collins alias Kehoe, suspected of b:ing J. C. Patterson, was one of the perpetrators of the Grass Valley, Nela county, stage robbery during the year 1879, when one Cuminings was murdered. I deuy the same, as I do not know who committed said offence. Yours, etc., Ropert WILuLtAMs. ] I next conversed with defendant about the crime on June 7th, 1882. It was in the yard between 8 and 9 o’olock a. M. I asked him if he knew where Bill Williams was. He said he had been. in Texas and returned to California, Itold him I had written the Governor of California in behalf of Bill Williams who had been senteucéd to15 years for robbery, committed with Thorn and Doyle. His sentence was commuted to ten years at my suggestion. Colling said be and Thorn were camping outside of Sacramento when Collins went into town, found Williams, and they went to a drugstore where there was an assayer, to havwa nugget assayed. He left it returning next morning to get the result. Only a boy-was there, Williams stayimg on the outside. The boy agreed to go after the druggist, but he said no, and seeing who he supposed was officer Jackson in the store got scared, went away and never returned. He and Thorn went south, getting a light wagon and finally reaching Tehachipi Pass. Detective Hume came along that way and defendant presented a rifle at him and made him give up his pistols. They went up into a gulch and stayed two weeks, then went t> Prescott where they heard that the officers were looking for two men that robbed the stage of $7,000. I said ‘‘That was about what you got.” He said, ‘‘No, it was nearer $8000.” They sold their conveyance at Prescott and went East tozether with Delegate Campbell. I told Collins [had read of an important arrest’hare, by Crips. Aull, of staze robbers(Cramm, Miner and Miller) and said'it-was a brave act. He said he had the San_ Francisco Chronicle with a-full account of’ it. He spoke highly of Capt. Aull, but said he did not think he was as brave aman asthat. I told him he did not know Aull as well as I. He said Thorn felt hard towards Doyle who had turned State’s evidence against him, and. that: ‘Thorn had killed, quartered and baried Doyle“for’ ‘his perfidy. He told mel was foolish for getting arrested for so small. an offense, and that I ought to have gone for the State Treasury. He said when he got out he, Jesse Miller, Thorn and I would andertake it. I shrugged my shoulders. I hear that Doyle is in town. I thought Collins’ story about him wae to inet -~valise’ou the outside E-would hke-to+ and the engagement was broken off timidaté me. We-had another talk in the afternoou. of the same day, Beaumont joined us and said he had been in California and Arizyi., and had a sympathy. for Western men. He said he was accused of stealing jewelry and clothing, and was persecated. He left as then and Collins said, ‘J have not much faith in that man.” then asked Collins where Thorn was.” He said they had been together inNew Orleans and Louisville. At New Orleans he said. he wanted to remelt.some bullion and change its identity. He went to a brass foundry to borrow a furnace, but could not get it and borrowed a crucible with which he melted tho bullion at the foundry, putting: cain silverin it. He said before: teaving California he contemplated b irglarizing Crocker’s or Stantorid’s residence in Sacramento to get some plate silver, but was scared out. He took one of the bars to the Mint and sold it. He met Fy K. Jones and Mr. Foote there. On the morning of the 8th, in jail yard, he told me he was sick at one time and the lady who was with him wanted to go back to Louisville; He gave her a check for $50, and she wanted $500 but did not get it. He went back to Kentucky after he got-better, and was joined by an old convict from Indiana. They went toa farmer's house, clubbed, gagged and bound trim;-also-bound-his-wife-and servant” and got $409. © He said he had heard there was $8,000 there. He thought the convict from Indiana was not. a brave man, and ‘that when he got out of the St. Louis Jail he would huot up Thorn again, He said he and Thorn went from New Orleans to Louisville,-and took some bullion to an express company and had it shipped to the Philadelphia Mint getting _ $4,000 in coin, which he puts on his “shoulder and carried it to a saloon whore he met Thoro and putting it with money he got at New Orleans. they divided the whole. I wanted to of the otficers of California, because [ thought it was an anjustifiable affair that had occurred ina State I fought forin the Rebellion, and also knowing that Capt. Aull was looking for him, and I wanted to help Aull, . That same day Collins and I had further talk. I told him of an attempted robbery of a stage between fombstoue and . Tucson, “wherein some cowboys were concerhe d and killed the driver. [ told him how they were finally killed by a saloon keeper and: some of his friends, and that the saloon keeper was then killed by some friends of the robbers. I told him of’ another robbing exploit in that country. Collins was much interested in~ these tales, matter the afternoon of the 8th, said at Pittsburg he loaned the pro prietop-of-the--St.-Clair--Hotel-§500; about bullion. He frequently spoke of bullion in Beaumont’s presence. the eighteenth of July, when it was published in the St. Louis papers that Collins was wantfed here. He told mz it was Qummings *they had killed, I having asked him: I had an impression it was a Mr. Moore of Moore’s Fiat. The day the account appeared-in the paper Collins was greatly agitated. On the 19th defendant called me into his cell and said he believed I had given him away. I denied it for my own safety, but he persisted I had. He said, ‘‘My God, I never thought you would give me away.” ‘The other prisoners~in the jail were very resentful toward me because one of the officers said Ihad toldit. Discipline was poor there and there were numerous fights that the guards seemed _to-enjoy. —_On-the—afternoon: of the 5th, being: satisfied defendant was one of the men, I wrote a note asking the Chief Detective of St. Louis t6 come and see ‘me. The acting Chief came on the sixth, and 1 bad a talk with him, Feeling resentful toward the detectives who said I had told about Collins,and under the pressure of fear, I wrote the letter to Governo-‘Perkins that you have read. Ie had asked me to deay it in writing, as I did to him, and 1 wrote it then. Just before I wrote it, possibly the 19th, defendant met me and said he would get ten men to beat me to death: I had not then told the officers what he told me of the details. There was a very strony feeling against me throughout. the prison. In September defendant approached me in a’ threatening manner and tdid‘me not to look at him. I turned and looked at him hard, and he said he wouldthrottle me. He accused me of stealing two letters from him. The prisoners got around us and there was great excitement. The officers of the prison came down and searched me but the letters were not fennd. It was on the morning of the day the letter is dated that P wrote it. He wanted me to write it to the Diatrict Attorney of Nevada the contemptible wretch Beaumont, to further allay the excitement and feeling against me. ‘I knew Beau: mont and Collins were friendly. A . detective told me he had a deadly enemy on the outside Whose neck he (Collins) had tried to swear into a noose. Beaumont borrowed all, the money I had and _gambled it away. I had w, fron the —ebject-of ferreting out this matter so I> might win the4 approbation of law abiding citizens, am out on my Own recognizance :. I believe that this course was taken to keep me under restraint so the ft bring the matter to the knowledge. We next talked about this He and going to St. Louis was arrested for burglary._He frequently spoke We carried on these talks till about county. I made the same denial_to . ‘ 4 were to rob auy place, officers could Yeo! sure I r weutl's be honest enough to come on this stand and tell the who'e truth. I Jo not intend to return:to St, Louis after this to stand a t ial unless T am obliged to. I have no fear of the case there. The District Attorney said in open Court they were holding me merely until the officers arrived from California. When I broke: the window I became scared and.rap away, when I was arrested: I was under the influence of liquor and my impression is I stumbled against it. I was born in St. Louis, Missouri My parents came to California in 1849 or 1850. I was born in 1847, I returned to St. Louis in 4865 to go tagollege in Tlinois, and was in St Louisa week} In the St. Louis Prison we had breakfast between 7 and 8; then recess ; then to tke cell; dinner at 4 ; and anothir recess for exercise at 3. I occupied a double cell, but at times had a mate there. A fellow named Prescott roomed with me a short time. After leaving this State [ met Capt. Aull in St. Louis Jail in September, 1882. Capt: Lees was there. Ihad not written to them, but wrote to Chief Campbell of St. Louis what Collins «had told me. He copied it off and. sent it to the officers—here,—I-do_ not know if eaumont wes -a -friend of Collins, He seemed to be. ‘Collins was a favorite prisoner, He had his cell open and&te the crumbs from he officers’ table. Beaumont was sometimes let out of his ccll to wash down the floor, then the iwo get together. MeMahon was guard inside. would Ryan was Jailor, and While in Capt. Aull’s office [ was not known as a man to whom it was dangerous for any prisoner to tell anythiny. The defendant has-often commended me for my course there. Defendant told me after the rubbery they went towards Frazee’s, 7 miles from Marysville. Hesaid Thorn took in the gun he had borrowed, and when he (Thorp) came out he said Frazee had .told him two tall men who answered their description~—committed-~ the robbery. He said they then went to Sacramento county. } Collins said he had rifleat Tchachipi Pass, but had a pistol at the place of the robbery. Defendant said he fired a shot over Cummings’ head dming the scuffle to intimidate him. He said there were two ladies aboard that they didn’t disturb. He didn’t say how thany passengers there were. He said they got the bars and: Cum_mings’ watch and some money. This was told me the 6th I. think, He did not.say what date he helped to rob the Marysville postuffice. He and Crumm and Thorn did it prior to the murder, getting in all $500. He said they left Crumm then and went to Frazee’s. He said Thorn was sick of chills and fever for some out being prompted by any one. 1 did it to direct the officers in their investigation, itf{at San Francisco once, in’ Captain Lees’ possession. I saw this copy last December. I arrived in California October 17th or 18th, 1882. I came to Nevada City October 20th, 1882, when they brought the prisonergup. I asked to see the copy. I had it just long enough to read it and see if it was a true copy. “I had no conversation with Lees then about the metter. When they came to St. Louis they didnot say they had my statement, but asked ~ what else I knew. They wanted to know as to Thorn’s whereabouts and I told them I did not’ know. I did not. know till after IT was leased on my own recognizance that I was to be brought to California as a witness, When I had signed the bond they told me to go into the me reLees. This wasfirst done--by— me on the impulse of the moment. When I gave the information’ 1] said Ll waived all right to the reward, Afterwards I formed the opinion that it might benefit me in event of a vigorous prosecution. ' Re-direct to Mr. Gaylord—In my direct examination I did not go into details because you ouly asked me to relate the subject matter of this Collins told me that 4°or°5 days after Thorn returned the shotgun he (Colins) returned to Frazee’s. Iwas convisted of grand trial. street and selling it on another strect. It 13 the only time Ihave ever been convicted; [Prosecution offered to show that he was drunk, and took the cow and. pawned it for whiskey. Defense objeccted. . Re-cross examined by M-. Walling—When I was arrested for stealing that cow I was not-at the time charged with any other offense, Captains Lees and Aull had other commi.menats four time. , no me at that JAMES CRUMM Was at four o’clock @alied and examined, To Mr, Gaylord—Reside at San Quentin. Am there under sentence, Whs sentenced Dec. 1881. In 1879 resided in different places Stopped awhile at Frazee’s place -in Yuba coynty. Met defendant in San Quentin in 1877. Next saw him at Stoc in 1879, in May or June. I met him thereaccordizg to agteement between, him, Thorn and Tf, The object of the meeting was to rob something to enrich. ourselves. ‘We. hee anything where we could get money. In pursuance of that agreement we entered into its performance, Court adjourned to 10 o’clock this morning, Crumm still being on the stan® __ . time, I madethe first written ac count of the statements of . Collins July 26th, 1882, withI have seen a copy of 4 Chief’s office where I met Aull and . larceny for picking up a cow on one} Teo MucH STYLE. Grandma Alta Wants Certain Towns to Quit Parting their Names in the . Middle. ‘The Alta says: When California} was settled a number of ambitious towns, in their haste to thrust themselves into prominence,had the word “city” appended to their names. Sacramento was one of these, and it has been known to the postal auvhorities ever sitice as Sacramento City. Having grown to. such _proportions that its citizens feel there is no longer a need for the use of that crutch, the disuse has been petitioned for and granted by the Post Office Department. April lst the State eapital will be known as Sacramento, and uo more forever as Sacramento City. While the Department has . its hand in, it ought to drop the “city” off the namesof all the Post Offices in the State. Most e° the places designated in that way are small towns, many .of them mere villages, which failed to wax great according to expectations of their founders, Some have actually dwindled away till they are simply skeleton towns. Like squabs, they were the biggest when first bora, Tir} mer, because the places so designated are not incorporated, and in the United States the word city is only properly applied to ,1n. invorporated municipality. Shakespeare says, “What is the.city but the people ? And if the people are-not there, —it cannot be a city. A Post Office, a blacksmith shop and a drinkiog’ sajoon do not make g city, or at least they have not done so in California ‘ince 1856. Hence we advise ‘the Post Office Department to discontinue the use of the word. Large towns do not need it and small ones do not deserve it. The following is a complete list ‘of: all the ‘‘cities” in California, shown by the ‘Postal Guide:” Amador City, Amador county; “Butte City, Colusa county; Crescent City, Del Norte county; Douglas City, Crinity county; Folsom City, Sacramento county; Forest City, /‘Sierra county; Fresno City, Fresno county; lowa City, Placer county; Junction ity, Trinity county; Lake City, Modoce county; Napa City, Napa county; National City, San: Diego; Nevada City, Nevada county; Pike City, sierra_county; Redwood City, San Mateo county; Sacramento City, Sacramento county; Sierra City,” Sierra county; Suisun City, Solano cotnty;.TelégraphCity, -Celaveras county; Yuba City, Sutter county; College City, Coluga county. Se far as Nevada City is concerhed, it must retain its tail in order to avoid getting mixed up with theState of Nevada or losing itself in county of the samename.” As to the other places mentioned, the suggestion is a very good one. as The Center ‘of Interest. The trial of Collins is now the allabsorbing topic of conversation in this county, and people all over the country are -watching its progress with the keenest interest. oF the most It is ont remarkable criminal The testimony throughout is of. a highly sensational character, closing as it does the motives and workings of the most desperate and shrewdest of. the criminal classes. The Transcripr is endeavoring to keep posted the thousands of peuple who want to know all about the trial but cannot attend. In doing this we are necessarily compelled to neglect for the time being other departments of news, bat this fact we feel confident will be overlooked under the circumstances. —_—_——— In the Jail. A Republican reporter visited the Truckee jail one-night this week and found seven immiates; five Chinamen and two boys, the two boys being there for stealing opium’pipes. The boys were reposing quietly on the floor by themselves. Dr. Young, the Chinese medicine man, and another heathen lay on the opposite side of the room, and.the big bedstead held .Ah Loy and‘ two other pagans, They were all comfortable, however, and delighted with the su*roundings, A murderer, five op um tiends and two thieves made a motley mess, Died at Reno. The Reno Gazette says: Frederick Burckhalter, who has been aftlicted with apoplexy for several years, and has been an inmate of the Napa Insane Asylum for some time, and was removed from that institution to the asylum at this place last week, died bere Tuesday afternoon in an apopleptic fit. His remains were sent to Truckee, where his mother and brother reside. re ly AAs oes akin as Colfax Items. ‘An Argus correspondent says that W. B. Story. and family Will soon move to their new -home at Rutherford in Napa county. The losing of the Rising Sun business, together with several other causes have made dull times in Colfax, but the attention te agriculture inspires hope for the bett A: % ‘REMARKABLE for overcoming diseases caused by impure water, decaying vegetation, e'c., Iron Bitters. isBrown’s For faic. SS House and lot in central part of city for sale. Enquire of Cross & Simonds, Oh, MyBack!. meaning. How much sufthese cases the word city is a misno-. ~ cases ever tried in the United States.dis: [ mine, and the decay of the wood } That's a comaion expression and has a world of fering is summed up in it. The singular thing about it is, that pain-in the back is occasioned by so many things. May be caused by kidney disease, liver complaint, consumption, cold, — rhcumatism,dyspepsia,overwork, nervous debility, &c. Whatever the cause, don’t neglect it. Something _ is wrong and needs prompt attention. No medicine has yet been discovered that. will so quickly and surely © cure such ~ diseases as Brown’s Iron Bitters, and it does this by commencing at the foundation, and making the blood pure and rich. port, Indiana,writes: “* My wife _ has for many years been troubled from pain in her back ° and ‘general debility incidentte-her sex. She has taken-one. bottle of Brown’s Iron Bitters, and Ican truthfully say that she has been so much benefited. that she pronounces it the’ only remedy of many miedicines she has tried.” Leading physicians and clergymen uSe and recominend Brown’s Iron BitERS. It has cured others suffering as you-are, and it will cure you. MORE INJUNCTIONS — : Proclamation. d, the undersigned, do a Clothing ~~ and Tailoring business in Nevada City. I bring from abroad skilled mechanics to live here, work here,spend among other trades people here the money they earn, ard it goes spinhe ning. in_ circulation _through.allthe.—arteries of trade. : The more patronage I receive the more skilled labor I employ, and therefore the. more population and prosperity for our town. Town-sites are comparatively valueless without population. The more bustness I do the more cheaply I can do it. My prices are even now as low.as any in the State: My workmen are as good 4s any. I strive to get the best. In that particular I have succeeded admirably. Give your orders to other cities, let your checks in payment follow your orders, and -your shekels have gone to stay—to benefit other localities—not your own. All follow that policy and property values shrink until stagnation sits upon your hills. Injunctions from ‘‘Below” seem to be the order of the-day. As a stand-off, and in view of the foregoing conclusions, proclaim— I therefore That I hereby enjoin all. good citizens_of Nevada.City and County from sending orders ‘‘Below” for the * clothes they wear, or from patronizing ‘‘canvassers” from ‘‘Below” who come here for no other purpose than to scondulate with your cash to other localities, where it, will be out of your reach and hard to gather any part of it again. Furthermore I cordially invite all who are in quest of Clothing, men’s Furnishing Goods, Hats, etc,, to visit my place of business, where they will be treated affably. Done at BARRETT’S Cloth House and Tailoring Establishment, 46 Broad Street, Nevada City, st 28th, a. D. 1883. C.A. BARRETT, Clothier and Injunctor. P, S. Look out! My next will be a review of Spring styles in Fab© tics and “make ups, oo HEADING ROOM COFFEE HOUSE, BROAD 8T., Next Doof to Hunt's. Hall, CHAS. ADOLPH, rrop’r. Open from 6 A. M. till Midaight. COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS: 10 Cte _____ . CHOCOLATE AND -DOUGHNUTS., 16 Ct ‘Regular Meals Cooked te tapidiaxs i short t motice, * Neat, Prompt, Ordery. 1 & Neo ree eas 5

ction. s pricés KY, jlish ns, 2) _ Opening and Clos Closing of Mails. Until . further notice the mails will close as Sie-ra City via North San ville aud Downieville, daily isan, Com exceptim at6 a. uM. jue Tent, ‘oore’s Flat . North Bl M and Graniteville, Saregg: oor excepted) fat Coe. y, Thurs‘ashington Tuesda; day and atéa You Bat, Lilie ‘Ye York’ and Dutch Flat » Wednesday and Friday, at 6 4. m. Tromas Mery, P. u. eee WHAT THEY ARB DOING. Persenal and Social Items Glean<d' * Mere and There. . Mra. Fred. Brown of Oakland is visiting with her nother, Mrs. John Hamiltoh of this city. Marcella, daughter of Mrs. M. S. Deal, is seriously ill with inflamma‘tory rheumatism. She is in San Francisco, ‘ ore Duhain of Yuba ootnty and A.-B. Brown, two of Smartsville’s wideawake citizens, were in town yesterday. Mrs. John Pattison of San Fran, eisee is expected to arrive here next week ona visit. She will be the guest of Mrs. Dr. R. M. Hunt. rasases coateaaees Pp “Should Heed the ‘Lesson. Jiadge McFarland’s « deciaon in the Sacramento slickens case struck. the . anti-miners between wind and, water. Tt was a reasonable, intelligent and lawful finding, and goes to show, as ‘we have from time to time asserted, that no competent and just Judge will ‘aid the apti-miners in their work of destruction. Again we advise Cadwalader,McClatchy & Co., to stop ’ wasting their time and taxing.our patience in trying to accomplish that which is physically and legally im-. ' possible, viz: the ruination of the s, S gold-producing industry. There may be money in the course they have been pursuing, but in the end they, will find themselves cursed by the very men whose cause they now pretend to be earnest advocates of. Red Men in Council. The Red Men of. Wyoming Tribe hadan extra good time Thursday evening, on the occasion of the official visitation to their wigwam of Great Sachem Spencer from Sacramento, accompanied by Adam Smith, Great Prophet of the Reservation of at the Hall on Broad street they adjourned to the National Hotel where _ they were joined by the lady members of their families and a few other invited gueste, and partook of a splendid collation served in thé best atyle of that popular house. =; BRIEF MENTION. — RSL ne NRE Various Happenings In and @ut of Towns Chase & Morgan, the painters, are making an esthetic new sign for Carr . Brothers, the druggists. In Justice Blakey’s court night before last Paul Cirack was finea $6 for disturbing the peace. Frank Guild will have an auction sale this evening in the building formerly known as Coe’s shoe store. Uncle Manuel el Disgusted. Uncle Manuel, the local celebrity, is talking of going ont of business in the weather prophesying line. He says so many frauds like Vennor and Wiggins and the United States Signal Service ‘‘professors” are hanging out their shingles in the same line _ that the science is losing what litt'e smattering of respectability it hitherto enjoyed, “Accepted the Invitation. The Nevada City Glee Club, which. includes among its members‘some of the best vocalists in the county, both male and female, has accepted the invitation to sing at the Odd Fellows’ celebration here on the 26th of April. A namber of beautiful songs will be rendered by the organization. Ditch Completed. The South Yuba Company’s new ditch has had the finishing touches put en it from Quaker Mfill as far down as the Idaho Reservoir, and a full head of water was turned. into it day before yesterday. It is pronounced by competent judges to be a first-class piece of work. EEE Horsferd’s Acid Phosphate in Abuse . of Alcohol. Dr. Jno. P. Wheeler, Hudson, N. Y., says: “I have given it with present decided benefit.in a case of innutrition of the brain, from abuse of alcohol.” ©. WHEN your wife’s health is bad, when your children are,sickly, when you feel worn out, use Brown's Iron Bitters. . House Wanted. _ A house of 5 or 6 rooms, favorably situated. Permanent tenant. Enquire of-Brand & Bro. tf CarLpren’s pictures cs lane: . ‘taneously by Swart, Nevada City. tf For Photogray hs go, to Swart, Broad street, Nevada City. £20-tf. Te 5 ohn from the errors and indigretons af you nervous weak: pi ost 8 Ss tees Amacice, ALong Day's Work— Rogar W. . good opportunity to see what wa: . wanted for the Nevada county stage . me if it wasn’t a cool job, 1 told THE COLLINS CASE. ces oe O’Meara Graphically Relates How Collins Confessed’to Him —Jim Cramm’s Story Begua. There were very few spectators present when Court opened yesterday morning, but during the forenoon they flocked in till many could not fiud seats. In the afternoon there was quite a rush. The chief event of the day was the testimony of Roger W. O’Meara, one of the most important witnesses for the prosecution. He told a straightforward story of intense interest that lost nothing in his method of presenting it. He is apparently a man of more than common. intelligence, and possesses besides good descriptive powers, a true Irish wit the exercise of which. during bis cross-examination enabled him to give the learned counsel for the defense a Roland for every Oliver. Upon the opening of the morning sessien _ MISS. HANNAH SKAEHAN Was the first witness, She testified substantially as follows: To Mr. Gaylord—I reside bere. In 18791 was teaching school at Moore’s Flat. On -Septeniber firstof— that year was a passenger on the stage to this city with William F. Cun mings and others. The stage was stopped 3or 4 miles from this place by two masked men. We were coming up the hil) when two men, one with a shotgun and one with a pistol, came out and halted us, gers to dismount. One of the men said for me to‘ stay on the outside seat where I was, and the other said to get down. I asked what I should do, The man with the gan said, ‘4 say for the lady to stay there.” The one with the pistol examined the baggage, and mail, and express matter. [Witness described the scuffle between Cummings and: the: robber, and the killing of the former.] The robber with the pistol kicked the valise open ‘and took out two package: wrapped in barley sacking. I saw Mr. Cummings’ watch when he looked at it at Blve Tent. It was alarge gold watch, I cannot describe the dress or size of the mea. Cross-examined by Mr. Walling— Being on the outside-seat~I"had a going on. The man with the gun passed close to the stage when he; went back and shot Cummings. 1 did not make up my mind then that I had seen one of the robbers before. T have talked with Captain Aull but once as to the particulars about the robbery. He showed me the photograph of Thorn when they were brought here. Ltold him about the robbery the ‘sane asl have Mi: Gaylord now. No one has asked me what I would testify to. I may Have talked with Hamilton MeCormick’s family-about it long ago. I did not tell them I had an impression I knew one of the men. I did not tell them Thad been instructed only to testify in regard towhat 1 was asked. I have been at their house only ‘two times or so in three years. I was excited during the robbery. They made me keep my hands up hike the others, and I thought if they did that there was danger They’ were doing some talking, the one with the pistol doing the most of it. I did not observe anything peculiar in their voices. Most that they said was very commanding. I did not tell McCormick’s family I heard one of them say ‘“‘Have you got it.” I am quite sure when the robber broke the valise open it was with hig foot. I did not see him use a knife. One of the robbers was a little taller than the-other. The one with the gan seemed to be the fleshier and the shorter,although there was not much difference in hight. Mr, Cumminys was heavier than the man he fought with. JONAH WITTER Testified as follows: To Mr. Gayseine’ at Kentucky Flat, this count: eptember Ist, 1879, I mov:d ‘some goods from there to Bloomfield for a man named Falck. While traveling the Selby Flat road I saw two men crossing the road to-, wards the Yuba, one of them walking straight ahead and the other going backwards arid covering up his tracks in the dust. [Defense objected to identification of Thorn as one of the men till a: conspiracy was shown between him and Collins, and witness was temporarily withdrawn. ] ROGER W. O’MEARA Testified as folows: To Mr. Gaylord—Reside at San Francisco: Was in the St. Louis Jail before coming there last October. First met defendant in San Francisco jail in February, 1876. Knew him-in the St. Louis jail, where we had conversations about the subject matter of this trial, these being had during recess hours and being voluntary on his part. I have no interests in this suit. I was never offered a reward or favors, :This subject was. first brought to my notice June 5th, 1882. -I.was that day locked'up in the jail. At recess I was approached ‘and accosted by Collins, He cautioned me not to call him Patterson. He called me into his cell and asked me what was thought of him in Cal. ifornia. Isaid ‘You and Thorn are robbery.” He flushed and seemed in distress. We went out iu the corridor and walked, and he asked ‘down.” They ordered the passen. “tof Thorn and Collins. him yes and reliearsed the incidents ‘of it, When I said ‘Cu:minings got the robber down,” he interrapted me saying, ‘‘The robber got Cummings I sad, ‘You seem to be posted.” He saidy ‘‘Why shouldn't Ibe, for I was there.” [Witness then related how at different times in jail there Collins had told him in detail of his experience after he got out of San Queritin up to the time of his incarceration.in St Louis jail, Aocording to it, Thorn was the one who fired the gun and Collins the one who scoffed with Cummings.} He told me after killing Cummings and while fleeing with the bullion they met two men he feared might identify them. Six weeks after it was known here that Collins was in’ St, Louis Jail, but before they know the circumstances of this confession defendant saw a publication in a St Louis paper that led him to charge me with giving him away to the California officers. He wrung his hands and was in great distress. He said had Cummings given the Ma. sonic cry of distress he would sot have been killed. He (Collins) claimed to me to be a Mason. He said he told the Sacramento druggist that the nugget-came fram Michigan Bar, but that it was the melted cases ef a watch taken at the robbery. I sent word to the California officers to ask if they wanted Collins, They them the statements made to me_ by Vollins. I was in jail at St Louis on a charge of burglary. While drunk and in broad daylight I had smashed a store window, I was released on my own recognizance, Cross-examined by Mr. Walling }. —I was convicted once only of a felony. It was in San Francisco April 3d, 1876. In San Quentin I was record clerk in Captain Aull’s office. He had full control of that office, but Capt. Lees was often there and I know him well, I was in Capt Aull’s office about 3 years, After coming out in 1879 I was employed by Carrol Cook at San Francisco till June, 1880. I then went to Tombstone, Arizona, then to Contention, Arizona. I then went to Denver, then. to St, Lonis in February, 1881. [ wes employed at shoveling grain in the St. Louis elevator til March, when I went to Chicago. : In Chicago I was engaged as a reporter for the I}ustrated News, and in addressing newspapér wrappers. In Chicago I was arrested for receiving astolen goods, but the case was stricken from the docket. I did not escape prosecution by turning Stute’s evidence. Ihave been known as R. W. King. In going to Arizona I adopted my mother’s name to luse my identity and begin my_career anew. In St. Louis Jail I gave the name of Williams. I have frequently used the name of Wi!liams in writing for newspapers. Arizona, I was waylaid by a man and shot at three times. I fired at him and killed him. I was honorably acquitted by the Grand Jury and the Tucson Citizen published ap article commending me for giving a notorious desperado (Reddy alias Johnson) his deserts. The yard of the St. Louis Jail where we had these talks was about the square on which this Courthouse is located. About 150 men were there. I was alone meditating when Collias approached me, ['was astran er inastrange land. When he cautioned me about saying Patterson, we went immediately to his cell. It was not an enforce! rule that prisoners while exercising should not go to their éell. Ido not know there.was such arule. Collins wasa favorite prisoner, but I was enly a common one, yet frequently went to my cell when I pleased. Collins oceupied cell 45, I hal 82, being about 150 feet between them. Col lins was occasionally” in company with Benjamin Beaumont, to. whom he intaoduced me after I got in Ja‘l. When we got into his cell June 5th ahd [told him heand Thorn were wanted for the robbery, I thought so from asuggestion made by Captain Aull while I was in his office. James B. Hume requested Aull to have me get the description of all tall men recently discharged. Aull told me to give him the descriptions “I have not had frequent talks © with Capt. Aull about these matters. I have found him very reticent. After giving the descriptions till I.met defendant at St. LouisI had not talked of this matter. I first met these officers when they came to St. Louis last year. I said to him that he was wanted for the Cumuinings murder because I reasoned out that he was I related tohim then incidents of my own career. I told him about goingto Arizoua. At Tombstone I organized an anti-Chinese League, and delivered open air speeches. I also told him of the killing of Reddy. We had some talk that day aboit my arrest in laughing way. Wehad started out into the yard when he asked me if the robbery was not a cool job, We were walking yp and down pretty close to some other men when this conversation occurred, We continued walking till the time of recess. was over. I told him what-I had seen in the newspapers. Ashe said, ‘‘Wasn’t I there?” the whistle blew for the end of recess, The conversation I have stated here was at intervals and occupied-the whole-hour of the recess. I first committed it to writing about six weeks after. I met him next morning. The next morning he ‘told me he was in for robbery, and the police were persecutiug him. He told me they ‘vd brought charges of perjury and’ burglary againat him -said-yes;~Then F-wrote out and sent" {0 Tombstone, when he was acquitted of robbery. He told me ofa safe there he had_ cracked and got forty big dollars ‘from, He said he had been traveling with a lady and had been sick and rapidly spent the money realized from the robbery here. He eaid he didn’t know where Thorn was. ‘He said Thorn qvasa natural born highwayman who never flinched. He spoke of Thorn sending him $25 to go from San Queutin and how they were at Frazev’s. He said he had a pass to go from San Quentin to Reno, Nevada, and sold it at San Francisco, He went to San Joaquin cOunty and met Thorn and Cramm. In Tuolunme county they went to the store of an old man named Fields, tied a boy they found there and while robbing it the old man came back and Thorn shot him in the shoulder. He eaid they went to Marysville and robbed a postoffice of about $500, and then they got rid of Crumm whom he said had no courage. That day I told him I had been living in Chicago and was so snxious to go to work that I took a job at $5 a week. I told bim of aman I met there that I befriended 12 or 14 years.ago in Jackson county, Missouri,when I was Deputy UO. S. Marshal and Deputy Sheriff and he befriended me in Chicago, Il. I met defendant the afternoon of that day. I told him of having a have taken care of. He said prison. er Beaumont had a wife who came there to.see her husband and _shlie would ge and get the valise. He introduced mé to Beaumont, with whom I-became somewhat intimate. We then walked the floor. Beaumont then left us and Collins and I again resumed the talk about the crime. He told me they camped around Grass Valley, coming’ to Nevada occasionally. He said they met an old convict known as Slippery Sam on the night of Kearney’s meeting, and that Sam who was working in a harness shop here complained because some one had given him away. He related to me the particulars.of the robbery and how they took the bullion and made towards Frazee’s. Thora went into Frazee’s to return a shot-gun, and he said that while Thorn was in there Frazee told him about the murder and that he (Thorn) might be suspected, I told him that day that in Chicago I delivered a lecture befure a labor organization and“ became acquainted with some very respectable people, including a lady to whom [became engaged to be married. I also told him that I got on a spree in consequence.AFTERNOON SESSION, Cross examination of Roger W. O’Meara continued—[The defendant wrote as follows at°'Mr. Walling’s dictation < “St. Lovts, “Mo. July 24th, 1882. Hon: Geg. C, Perkins, Governor Cala. Dear Sir---It is rumored that Iam the person who gave information to the effect that one JohnC., P. Collins alias Kehoe, suspected of b:ing J. C. Patterson, was one of the perpetrators of the Grass Valley, Nela county, stage robbery during the year 1879, when one Cuminings was murdered. I deuy the same, as I do not know who committed said offence. Yours, etc., Ropert WILuLtAMs. ] I next conversed with defendant about the crime on June 7th, 1882. It was in the yard between 8 and 9 o’olock a. M. I asked him if he knew where Bill Williams was. He said he had been. in Texas and returned to California, Itold him I had written the Governor of California in behalf of Bill Williams who had been senteucéd to15 years for robbery, committed with Thorn and Doyle. His sentence was commuted to ten years at my suggestion. Colling said be and Thorn were camping outside of Sacramento when Collins went into town, found Williams, and they went to a drugstore where there was an assayer, to havwa nugget assayed. He left it returning next morning to get the result. Only a boy-was there, Williams stayimg on the outside. The boy agreed to go after the druggist, but he said no, and seeing who he supposed was officer Jackson in the store got scared, went away and never returned. He and Thorn went south, getting a light wagon and finally reaching Tehachipi Pass. Detective Hume came along that way and defendant presented a rifle at him and made him give up his pistols. They went up into a gulch and stayed two weeks, then went t> Prescott where they heard that the officers were looking for two men that robbed the stage of $7,000. I said ‘‘That was about what you got.” He said, ‘‘No, it was nearer $8000.” They sold their conveyance at Prescott and went East tozether with Delegate Campbell. I told Collins [had read of an important arrest’hare, by Crips. Aull, of staze robbers(Cramm, Miner and Miller) and said'it-was a brave act. He said he had the San_ Francisco Chronicle with a-full account of’ it. He spoke highly of Capt. Aull, but said he did not think he was as brave aman asthat. I told him he did not know Aull as well as I. He said Thorn felt hard towards Doyle who had turned State’s evidence against him, and. that: ‘Thorn had killed, quartered and baried Doyle“for’ ‘his perfidy. He told mel was foolish for getting arrested for so small. an offense, and that I ought to have gone for the State Treasury. He said when he got out he, Jesse Miller, Thorn and I would andertake it. I shrugged my shoulders. I hear that Doyle is in town. I thought Collins’ story about him wae to inet -~valise’ou the outside E-would hke-to+

and the engagement was broken off timidaté me. We-had another talk in the afternoou. of the same day, Beaumont joined us and said he had been in California and Arizyi., and had a sympathy. for Western men. He said he was accused of stealing jewelry and clothing, and was persecated. He left as then and Collins said, ‘J have not much faith in that man.” then asked Collins where Thorn was.” He said they had been together inNew Orleans and Louisville. At New Orleans he said. he wanted to remelt.some bullion and change its identity. He went to a brass foundry to borrow a furnace, but could not get it and borrowed a crucible with which he melted tho bullion at the foundry, putting: cain silverin it. He said before: teaving California he contemplated b irglarizing Crocker’s or Stantorid’s residence in Sacramento to get some plate silver, but was scared out. He took one of the bars to the Mint and sold it. He met Fy K. Jones and Mr. Foote there. On the morning of the 8th, in jail yard, he told me he was sick at one time and the lady who was with him wanted to go back to Louisville; He gave her a check for $50, and she wanted $500 but did not get it. He went back to Kentucky after he got-better, and was joined by an old convict from Indiana. They went toa farmer's house, clubbed, gagged and bound trim;-also-bound-his-wife-and servant” and got $409. © He said he had heard there was $8,000 there. He thought the convict from Indiana was not. a brave man, and ‘that when he got out of the St. Louis Jail he would huot up Thorn again, He said he and Thorn went from New Orleans to Louisville,-and took some bullion to an express company and had it shipped to the Philadelphia Mint getting _ $4,000 in coin, which he puts on his “shoulder and carried it to a saloon whore he met Thoro and putting it with money he got at New Orleans. they divided the whole. I wanted to of the otficers of California, because [ thought it was an anjustifiable affair that had occurred ina State I fought forin the Rebellion, and also knowing that Capt. Aull was looking for him, and I wanted to help Aull, . That same day Collins and I had further talk. I told him of an attempted robbery of a stage between fombstoue and . Tucson, “wherein some cowboys were concerhe d and killed the driver. [ told him how they were finally killed by a saloon keeper and: some of his friends, and that the saloon keeper was then killed by some friends of the robbers. I told him of’ another robbing exploit in that country. Collins was much interested in~ these tales, matter the afternoon of the 8th, said at Pittsburg he loaned the pro prietop-of-the--St.-Clair--Hotel-§500; about bullion. He frequently spoke of bullion in Beaumont’s presence. the eighteenth of July, when it was published in the St. Louis papers that Collins was wantfed here. He told mz it was Qummings *they had killed, I having asked him: I had an impression it was a Mr. Moore of Moore’s Fiat. The day the account appeared-in the paper Collins was greatly agitated. On the 19th defendant called me into his cell and said he believed I had given him away. I denied it for my own safety, but he persisted I had. He said, ‘‘My God, I never thought you would give me away.” ‘The other prisoners~in the jail were very resentful toward me because one of the officers said Ihad toldit. Discipline was poor there and there were numerous fights that the guards seemed _to-enjoy. —_On-the—afternoon: of the 5th, being: satisfied defendant was one of the men, I wrote a note asking the Chief Detective of St. Louis t6 come and see ‘me. The acting Chief came on the sixth, and 1 bad a talk with him, Feeling resentful toward the detectives who said I had told about Collins,and under the pressure of fear, I wrote the letter to Governo-‘Perkins that you have read. Ie had asked me to deay it in writing, as I did to him, and 1 wrote it then. Just before I wrote it, possibly the 19th, defendant met me and said he would get ten men to beat me to death: I had not then told the officers what he told me of the details. There was a very strony feeling against me throughout. the prison. In September defendant approached me in a’ threatening manner and tdid‘me not to look at him. I turned and looked at him hard, and he said he wouldthrottle me. He accused me of stealing two letters from him. The prisoners got around us and there was great excitement. The officers of the prison came down and searched me but the letters were not fennd. It was on the morning of the day the letter is dated that P wrote it. He wanted me to write it to the Diatrict Attorney of Nevada the contemptible wretch Beaumont, to further allay the excitement and feeling against me. ‘I knew Beau: mont and Collins were friendly. A . detective told me he had a deadly enemy on the outside Whose neck he (Collins) had tried to swear into a noose. Beaumont borrowed all, the money I had and _gambled it away. I had w, fron the —ebject-of ferreting out this matter so I> might win the4 approbation of law abiding citizens, am out on my Own recognizance :. I believe that this course was taken to keep me under restraint so the ft bring the matter to the knowledge. We next talked about this He and going to St. Louis was arrested for burglary._He frequently spoke We carried on these talks till about county. I made the same denial_to . ‘ 4 were to rob auy place, officers could Yeo! sure I r weutl's be honest enough to come on this stand and tell the who'e truth. I Jo not intend to return:to St, Louis after this to stand a t ial unless T am obliged to. I have no fear of the case there. The District Attorney said in open Court they were holding me merely until the officers arrived from California. When I broke: the window I became scared and.rap away, when I was arrested: I was under the influence of liquor and my impression is I stumbled against it. I was born in St. Louis, Missouri My parents came to California in 1849 or 1850. I was born in 1847, I returned to St. Louis in 4865 to go tagollege in Tlinois, and was in St Louisa week} In the St. Louis Prison we had breakfast between 7 and 8; then recess ; then to tke cell; dinner at 4 ; and anothir recess for exercise at 3. I occupied a double cell, but at times had a mate there. A fellow named Prescott roomed with me a short time. After leaving this State [ met Capt. Aull in St. Louis Jail in September, 1882. Capt: Lees was there. Ihad not written to them, but wrote to Chief Campbell of St. Louis what Collins «had told me. He copied it off and. sent it to the officers—here,—I-do_ not know if eaumont wes -a -friend of Collins, He seemed to be. ‘Collins was a favorite prisoner, He had his cell open and&te the crumbs from he officers’ table. Beaumont was sometimes let out of his ccll to wash down the floor, then the iwo get together. MeMahon was guard inside. would Ryan was Jailor, and While in Capt. Aull’s office [ was not known as a man to whom it was dangerous for any prisoner to tell anythiny. The defendant has-often commended me for my course there. Defendant told me after the rubbery they went towards Frazee’s, 7 miles from Marysville. Hesaid Thorn took in the gun he had borrowed, and when he (Thorp) came out he said Frazee had .told him two tall men who answered their description~—committed-~ the robbery. He said they then went to Sacramento county. } Collins said he had rifleat Tchachipi Pass, but had a pistol at the place of the robbery. Defendant said he fired a shot over Cummings’ head dming the scuffle to intimidate him. He said there were two ladies aboard that they didn’t disturb. He didn’t say how thany passengers there were. He said they got the bars and: Cum_mings’ watch and some money. This was told me the 6th I. think, He did not.say what date he helped to rob the Marysville postuffice. He and Crumm and Thorn did it prior to the murder, getting in all $500. He said they left Crumm then and went to Frazee’s. He said Thorn was sick of chills and fever for some out being prompted by any one. 1 did it to direct the officers in their investigation, itf{at San Francisco once, in’ Captain Lees’ possession. I saw this copy last December. I arrived in California October 17th or 18th, 1882. I came to Nevada City October 20th, 1882, when they brought the prisonergup. I asked to see the copy. I had it just long enough to read it and see if it was a true copy. “I had no conversation with Lees then about the metter. When they came to St. Louis they didnot say they had my statement, but asked ~ what else I knew. They wanted to know as to Thorn’s whereabouts and I told them I did not’ know. I did not. know till after IT was leased on my own recognizance that I was to be brought to California as a witness, When I had signed the bond they told me to go into the me reLees. This wasfirst done--by— me on the impulse of the moment. When I gave the information’ 1] said Ll waived all right to the reward, Afterwards I formed the opinion that it might benefit me in event of a vigorous prosecution. ' Re-direct to Mr. Gaylord—In my direct examination I did not go into details because you ouly asked me to relate the subject matter of this Collins told me that 4°or°5 days after Thorn returned the shotgun he (Colins) returned to Frazee’s. Iwas convisted of grand trial. street and selling it on another strect. It 13 the only time Ihave ever been convicted; [Prosecution offered to show that he was drunk, and took the cow and. pawned it for whiskey. Defense objeccted. . Re-cross examined by M-. Walling—When I was arrested for stealing that cow I was not-at the time charged with any other offense, Captains Lees and Aull had other commi.menats four time. , no me at that JAMES CRUMM Was at four o’clock @alied and examined, To Mr, Gaylord—Reside at San Quentin. Am there under sentence, Whs sentenced Dec. 1881. In 1879 resided in different places Stopped awhile at Frazee’s place -in Yuba coynty. Met defendant in San Quentin in 1877. Next saw him at Stoc in 1879, in May or June. I met him thereaccordizg to agteement between, him, Thorn and Tf, The object of the meeting was to rob something to enrich. ourselves. ‘We. hee anything where we could get money. In pursuance of that agreement we entered into its performance, Court adjourned to 10 o’clock this morning, Crumm still being on the stan® __ . time, I madethe first written ac count of the statements of . Collins July 26th, 1882, withI have seen a copy of 4 Chief’s office where I met Aull and . larceny for picking up a cow on one} Teo MucH STYLE. Grandma Alta Wants Certain Towns to Quit Parting their Names in the . Middle. ‘The Alta says: When California} was settled a number of ambitious towns, in their haste to thrust themselves into prominence,had the word “city” appended to their names. Sacramento was one of these, and it has been known to the postal auvhorities ever sitice as Sacramento City. Having grown to. such _proportions that its citizens feel there is no longer a need for the use of that crutch, the disuse has been petitioned for and granted by the Post Office Department. April lst the State eapital will be known as Sacramento, and uo more forever as Sacramento City. While the Department has . its hand in, it ought to drop the “city” off the namesof all the Post Offices in the State. Most e° the places designated in that way are small towns, many .of them mere villages, which failed to wax great according to expectations of their founders, Some have actually dwindled away till they are simply skeleton towns. Like squabs, they were the biggest when first bora, Tir} mer, because the places so designated are not incorporated, and in the United States the word city is only properly applied to ,1n. invorporated municipality. Shakespeare says, “What is the.city but the people ? And if the people are-not there, —it cannot be a city. A Post Office, a blacksmith shop and a drinkiog’ sajoon do not make g city, or at least they have not done so in California ‘ince 1856. Hence we advise ‘the Post Office Department to discontinue the use of the word. Large towns do not need it and small ones do not deserve it. The following is a complete list ‘of: all the ‘‘cities” in California, shown by the ‘Postal Guide:” Amador City, Amador county; “Butte City, Colusa county; Crescent City, Del Norte county; Douglas City, Crinity county; Folsom City, Sacramento county; Forest City, /‘Sierra county; Fresno City, Fresno county; lowa City, Placer county; Junction ity, Trinity county; Lake City, Modoce county; Napa City, Napa county; National City, San: Diego; Nevada City, Nevada county; Pike City, sierra_county; Redwood City, San Mateo county; Sacramento City, Sacramento county; Sierra City,” Sierra county; Suisun City, Solano cotnty;.TelégraphCity, -Celaveras county; Yuba City, Sutter county; College City, Coluga county. Se far as Nevada City is concerhed, it must retain its tail in order to avoid getting mixed up with theState of Nevada or losing itself in county of the samename.” As to the other places mentioned, the suggestion is a very good one.. as The Center ‘of Interest. The trial of Collins is now the allabsorbing topic of conversation in this county, and people all over the country are -watching its progress with the keenest interest. oF the most It is ont remarkable criminal The testimony throughout is of. a highly sensational character, closing as it does the motives and workings of the most desperate and shrewdest of. the criminal classes. The Transcripr is endeavoring to keep posted the thousands of peuple who want to know all about the trial but cannot attend. In doing this we are necessarily compelled to neglect for the time being other departments of news, bat this fact we feel confident will be overlooked under the circumstances. —_—_——— In the Jail. A Republican reporter visited the Truckee jail one-night this week and found seven immiates; five Chinamen and two boys, the two boys being there for stealing opium’pipes. The boys were reposing quietly on the floor by themselves. Dr. Young, the Chinese medicine man, and another heathen lay on the opposite side of the room, and.the big bedstead held .Ah Loy and‘ two other pagans, They were all comfortable, however, and delighted with the su*roundings, A murderer, five op um tiends and two thieves made a motley mess, Died at Reno. The Reno Gazette says: Frederick Burckhalter, who has been aftlicted with apoplexy for several years, and has been an inmate of the Napa Insane Asylum for some time, and was removed from that institution to the asylum at this place last week, died bere Tuesday afternoon in an apopleptic fit. His remains were sent to Truckee, where his mother and brother reside. re ly AAs oes akin as Colfax Items. ‘An Argus correspondent says that W. B. Story. and family Will soon move to their new -home at Rutherford in Napa county. The losing of the Rising Sun business, together with several other causes have made dull times in Colfax, but the attention te agriculture inspires hope for the bett A: % ‘REMARKABLE for overcoming diseases caused by impure water, decaying vegetation, e'c., Iron Bitters. isBrown’s For faic. SS House and lot in central part of city for sale. Enquire of Cross & Simonds, Oh, MyBack!. meaning. How much sufthese cases the word city is a misno-. ~ cases ever tried in the United States.dis: [ mine, and the decay of the wood } That's a comaion expression and has a world of fering is summed up in it. The singular thing about it is, that pain-in the back is occasioned by so many things. May be caused by kidney disease, liver complaint, consumption, cold, — rhcumatism,dyspepsia,overwork, nervous debility, &c. Whatever the cause, don’t neglect it. Something _ is wrong and needs prompt attention. No medicine has yet been discovered that. will so quickly and surely © cure such ~ diseases as Brown’s Iron Bitters, and it does this by commencing at the foundation, and making the blood pure and rich. port, Indiana,writes: “* My wife _ has for many years been troubled from pain in her back ° and ‘general debility incidentte-her sex. She has taken-one. bottle of Brown’s Iron Bitters, and Ican truthfully say that she has been so much benefited. that she pronounces it the’ only remedy of many miedicines she has tried.” Leading physicians and clergymen uSe and recominend Brown’s Iron BitERS. It has cured others suffering as you-are, and it will cure you. MORE INJUNCTIONS — : Proclamation. d, the undersigned, do a Clothing ~~ and Tailoring business in Nevada City. I bring from abroad skilled mechanics to live here, work here,spend among other trades people here the money they earn, ard it goes spinhe ning. in_ circulation _through.allthe.—arteries of trade. : The more patronage I receive the more skilled labor I employ, and therefore the. more population and prosperity for our town. Town-sites are comparatively valueless without population. The more bustness I do the more cheaply I can do it. My prices are even now as low.as any in the State: My workmen are as good 4s any. I strive to get the best. In that particular I have succeeded admirably. Give your orders to other cities, let your checks in payment follow your orders, and -your shekels have gone to stay—to benefit other localities—not your own. All follow that policy and property values shrink until stagnation sits upon your hills. Injunctions from ‘‘Below” seem to be the order of the-day. As a stand-off, and in view of the foregoing conclusions, proclaim— I therefore That I hereby enjoin all. good citizens_of Nevada.City and County from sending orders ‘‘Below” for the * clothes they wear, or from patronizing ‘‘canvassers” from ‘‘Below” who come here for no other purpose than to scondulate with your cash to other localities, where it, will be out of your reach and hard to gather any part of it again. Furthermore I cordially invite all who are in quest of Clothing, men’s Furnishing Goods, Hats, etc,, to visit my place of business, where they will be treated affably. Done at BARRETT’S Cloth House and Tailoring Establishment, 46 Broad Street, Nevada City, st 28th, a. D. 1883. C.A. BARRETT, Clothier and Injunctor. P, S. Look out! My next will be a review of Spring styles in Fab© tics and “make ups, oo HEADING ROOM COFFEE HOUSE, BROAD 8T., Next Doof to Hunt's. Hall, CHAS. ADOLPH, rrop’r. Open from 6 A. M. till Midaight. COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS: 10 Cte _____ . 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