The Saga of Henry Plummer Book 2 by Sven Skaar (PH 3-2) (1959-1960) (49 pages)

accomplished by an open viola oe rat “think of. that,, fienty?” asked: Billy Mayfield ©; -” Expected It . “Not: more than. I expected. ‘Another trial, that’s all.” .°. . Now he and Belden must delay; line start of that trial as long) las possible. Plumer had learned how time worked to his advantage. How quickly the dead were forgotten; what they had looked like, had stood for or against while al’ 2 was no longer rememHered. +” In Nevada City one no longer heard: “That poor, old Vedder.” It was: “That crazy, jealous old squarehead should've expected what he got when he married that slut, Lucinda. Served him right.” In another year and another trial, a jury might throw the case completely out of court. Nevada Democrat said on Auglust 11, 1858: : “Case of Plumer.We learn that the remittur in the case of the People vs. Henry Plumer was received yesterday from the Supreme Court. “A rehearing will doubtless. be had at the present term, or probably a change of venue to some. other county for trial as it will, be difficult to get a jury here.” On the same date the change of venue to the Tenth Judicial ae of Yuba County was graned. Nevada Democrat, September “Trial of Plumer-The . ¢ase. of Henry Plumer,: indicted for thel < mutder. of John Vedder, was set for trial at Marysville on Monday last. Up. to Jast evening nothing had been heard as to the result of the trial” ‘. Found Guilty Again — September 22, _ “Trial oi: Plumer-This case was tried last week before the District Court of Marysville and occupied four days. The case was, given to the jury Thursday evening and ‘during the night they’ brought in a verdict of “suilty, i+ of murder in the sécond degree.”". \ bail.” _ A motion was made by Plumer’s counsel for a’ new trial, and: the question is, now pending before Judge Barbour.” September . 29: “The Plumer case. The motion for a new trial was argued before Judge Barbour Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Judge Barbour. ovetruled the motion, and sen-. tenced Plumer to ten years im-' prisonment. A. stay. of. proceedings for ten days was granted in: jorder to give the defendant’s, ;counsel time to prepare papers . for an appeal.”’ . By the early spring of 1859, (David Belden had exhausted eyery possible legal means to prevent Plumer from going to pria On Feb. 22, Henry Plumer was received at San Quentin from Yuba County for the crime of murder in the second degree, for a Sentence of ten years. He was Given a striped suit with number 1578 stencilled on it; had his head shaved and was put into a cell. Before Henry passed through the San Quentin gate, he said to his friends who had come that far with him, that: he would bel, out and free, home in good, old. : Nevada City before the end of summer. : How he would accomplish this, . . he did not say, but the Nevada! City gamblers would gZive five] to one that he was right. They}! would find few takers even at ten to one. Notes on Some People Involved] in Plumer Case The time has come to publish} a few notes on the men Henry Plumer came in daily contact with during his stay in Nevada City. I'll. begin with Samuel Washington Boring, Nevadal County sheriff (1856-58) elected to that office to replace Sheriff W. W.’ Wright, murdered by}. Henry Plumer. Boring was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, in 1824, the son. of Absalom and Elizabeth Ruhle Boring. Samuel attended -Jones-. boro school. until he was: 12. when. the family moved’ to Rushville, Illinois. . After finishing . public school he learned the. sadler’s trade, and worked’ in that business until the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1846; he enlisted in’ Dunlap’s Company _ of the First Illinois Cavalry. Cited for Service’ He fought on the Rio, Grande line. under General Taylor, attached to the scouting service.,; As a reward he was: elected: orderly sergeant. of his company “serving -with distinction. In the hazardous scouting work-he saw much . service of» both responsibility -and peril, as it ts a service calling ‘for great risks’ and hardships, making -it at once laborious: and all-important.” “When the war ended lie. re turned to. Illinois. to organize a wagon: train of . California emigrants.’ Under. “his: captainship the train left’ Rushville : March 28. and. arrived” at . Hangtown (now Placerville) on Sept. 10, 11:2 RRR ae ; The whole trip: from , Rushville to Placerville was: made by ox teams, the teams, being brought through ‘safely:. Mr. Boring was in command of the ‘trains, his experience ‘in the Méxican. War enabling him to make the journey with less’ loss ‘than was -suffered by most of the emigrants. In this’ train ‘were 15 wagons and 114 ‘oxen, only ‘five oxen of which were lost on the: trip, one of.them’ being stolen by Indians. “Elected to Two Offices — Sam Boring remained in. Hangtown that winter and moved the following ‘spring to Nevada City where he mined during: the two first rich years. f . In 1852 he was appointed under-sheriff. In the fall of 1855 he was-elected to the Legislature for the session of 1856. In the fall of 1856 he was elected sheriff of Nevada County, holding that position until -November 1859. He then engaged in the mercantile business in. Nevada City until 1864, when he moved to San Francisco and from there, ganizers .of, the Paul O. Burns in 1866, to San Jose, as agent for an: express company. : : : On the fourth of March, 1870,. he was. appointed under-sheriff of Santa Clara county, holding that position for four years, with Nick Harris, sheriff. In 1874 he took the. position of secretary! of the San Jose Water Company, remaining with the company un-; til: 1878. He then engaged. in the real estate .and* insurance bist ness. In 1878-'he was elected: to the State Senate, filling a vacaney, which. expired in 1979. . “Success in Texas ; Boring was a. ‘stockholder «is. ! and. .was’.made one of: the or-! Wine Company, and was its first secretary. In 1881 he became a resident of El Paso, Texas, re-, maining there for four and a. half years, and engaging in real estate speculations, which were quite successful, from the fact that he had preceded the railroad development which took place there later, Boring made only one visit to his former home in Rushville, Illinois, This was in 1880, when he accompanied the California Commandery of Knights Templar_ to the triennial conclave at Chicago. At that time he visited his parents’ graves near RushVille: saa: In 1857 Mr. Boring was married, in Nevada City, to Miss Susan M. Reed, a native of Wisconsin, who had crossed the plains with her stepfather, William Sublette, and her mother Maria L. Sublette. Boring was mayor of San Jose in 1888, and held office of county clerk just prior to the first term of the present. incumbent. Since then he has engaged in the real estate business. George S._ Getchell George S, Getchdll, the jury foreman, came from the state of Maine to San Francisco on the! %:. . steamer Sarah Sands in May 1850. After returning east for his family he settled in Humboldt as a hotel keeper. Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, stationed

accomplished by an open viola oe rat “think of. that,, fienty?” asked: Billy Mayfield ©; -” Expected It . “Not: more than. I expected. ‘Another trial, that’s all.” .°. . Now he and Belden must delay; line start of that trial as long) las possible. Plumer had learned how time worked to his advantage. How quickly the dead were forgotten; what they had looked like, had stood for or against while al’ 2 was no longer rememHered. +” In Nevada City one no longer heard: “That poor, old Vedder.” It was: “That crazy, jealous old squarehead should've expected what he got when he married that slut, Lucinda. Served him right.” In another year and another trial, a jury might throw the case completely out of court. Nevada Democrat said on Auglust 11, 1858: : “Case of Plumer.We learn that the remittur in the case of the People vs. Henry Plumer was received yesterday from the Supreme Court. “A rehearing will doubtless. be had at the present term, or probably a change of venue to some. other county for trial as it will, be difficult to get a jury here.” On the same date the change of venue to the Tenth Judicial ae of Yuba County was graned. Nevada Democrat, September “Trial of Plumer-The . ¢ase. of Henry Plumer,: indicted for thel < mutder. of John Vedder, was set for trial at Marysville on Monday last. Up. to Jast evening nothing had been heard as to the result of the trial” ‘. Found Guilty Again — September 22, _ “Trial oi: Plumer-This case was tried last week before the District Court of Marysville and occupied four days. The case was, given to the jury Thursday evening and ‘during the night they’ brought in a verdict of “suilty, i+ of murder in the sécond degree.”". \ bail.” _ A motion was made by Plumer’s counsel for a’ new trial, and: the question is, now pending before Judge Barbour.” September . 29: “The Plumer case. The motion for a new trial was argued before Judge Barbour Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Judge Barbour. ovetruled the motion, and sen-. tenced Plumer to ten years im-' prisonment. A. stay. of. proceedings for ten days was granted in: jorder to give the defendant’s, ;counsel time to prepare papers . for an appeal.”’ . By the early spring of 1859, (David Belden had exhausted eyery possible legal means to prevent Plumer from going to pria On Feb. 22, Henry Plumer was received at San Quentin from Yuba County for the crime of murder in the second degree, for a Sentence of ten years. He was Given a striped suit with number 1578 stencilled on it; had his head shaved and was put into a cell. Before Henry passed through the San Quentin gate, he said to his friends who had come that far with him, that: he would bel, out and free, home in good, old. : Nevada City before the end of summer. : How he would accomplish this, . . he did not say, but the Nevada! City gamblers would gZive five] to one that he was right. They}! would find few takers even at ten to one. Notes on Some People Involved] in Plumer Case The time has come to publish} a few notes on the men Henry Plumer came in daily contact with during his stay in Nevada City. I'll. begin with Samuel Washington Boring, Nevadal County sheriff (1856-58) elected to that office to replace Sheriff W. W.’ Wright, murdered by}. Henry Plumer. Boring was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, in 1824, the son. of Absalom and Elizabeth Ruhle Boring. Samuel attended -Jones-.

boro school. until he was: 12. when. the family moved’ to Rushville, Illinois. . After finishing . public school he learned the. sadler’s trade, and worked’ in that business until the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1846; he enlisted in’ Dunlap’s Company _ of the First Illinois Cavalry. Cited for Service’ He fought on the Rio, Grande line. under General Taylor, attached to the scouting service.,; As a reward he was: elected: orderly sergeant. of his company “serving -with distinction. In the hazardous scouting work-he saw much . service of» both responsibility -and peril, as it ts a service calling ‘for great risks’ and hardships, making -it at once laborious: and all-important.” “When the war ended lie. re turned to. Illinois. to organize a wagon: train of . California emigrants.’ Under. “his: captainship the train left’ Rushville : March 28.. and. arrived” at . Hangtown (now Placerville) on Sept. 10, 11:2 RRR ae ; The whole trip: from , Rushville to Placerville was: made by ox teams, the teams, being brought through ‘safely:. Mr. Boring was in command of the ‘trains, his experience ‘in the Méxican. War enabling him to make the journey with less’ loss ‘than was -suffered by most of the emigrants. In this’ train ‘were 15 wagons and 114 ‘oxen, only ‘five oxen of which were lost on the: trip, one of.them’ being stolen by Indians. “Elected to Two Offices — Sam Boring remained in. Hangtown that winter and moved the following ‘spring to Nevada City where he mined during: the two first rich years. f . In 1852 he was appointed under-sheriff. In the fall of 1855 he was-elected to the Legislature for the session of 1856. In the fall of 1856 he was elected sheriff of Nevada County, holding that position until -November 1859. He then engaged in the mercantile business in. Nevada City until 1864, when he moved to San Francisco and from there, ganizers .of, the Paul O. Burns in 1866, to San Jose, as agent for an: express company. : : : On the fourth of March, 1870,. he was. appointed under-sheriff of Santa Clara county, holding that position for four years, with Nick Harris, sheriff. In 1874 he took the. position of secretary! of the San Jose Water Company, remaining with the company un-; til: 1878. He then engaged. in the real estate .and* insurance bist ness. In 1878-'he was elected: to the State Senate, filling a vacaney, which. expired in 1979.. . “Success in Texas ; Boring was a. ‘stockholder «is. ! and. .was’.made one of: the or-! Wine Company, and was its first secretary. In 1881 he became a resident of El Paso, Texas, re-, maining there for four and a. half years, and engaging in real estate speculations, which were quite successful, from the fact that he had preceded the railroad development which took place there later, Boring made only one visit to his former home in Rushville, Illinois, This was in 1880, when he accompanied the California Commandery of Knights Templar_ to the triennial conclave at Chicago. At that time he visited his parents’ graves near RushVille: saa: In 1857 Mr. Boring was married, in Nevada City, to Miss Susan M. Reed, a native of Wisconsin, who had crossed the plains with her stepfather, William Sublette, and her mother Maria L. Sublette. Boring was mayor of San Jose in 1888, and held office of county clerk just prior to the first term of the present. incumbent. Since then he has engaged in the real estate business. George S._ Getchell George S, Getchdll, the jury foreman, came from the state of Maine to San Francisco on the! %:. . steamer Sarah Sands in May 1850. After returning east for his family he settled in Humboldt as a hotel keeper. Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, stationed