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COYOTE DIGGINS
fact that he was involved in heavy debts, to the amount of several
thousand dollars, all of which are unpaid; but I never dreamed that he
was a dishonest man until I learned of his conduct in your county.
Mr. Wilson is a citizen of Hamilton County, Ohio, and where known,
was much respected. He has a respectable family, who will feel this
dereliction of husband and father, severely. He is a member of that
respectable order named Odd Fellows, and has held many important
stations in the order, requiring skill and ability. He was, I believe, twice
elected to the office of Sheriff in Morgan County, Ohio, and never, until
now, was he suspected of a mean action.
Trusting that this information will give relief to his friends, and particularly his sureties, . subscribe myself a
CINCINNATI BUCKEYE.
Sacramento City, Dec. 2d, 1850.
Two weeks later, copies of the Herald for December 13 and 17 arrived
at Mulford’s bookstore. They told of a murder which had been committed with interesting ties to Thomas Wilson and Foster’s Bar, where
Wilson’s debts had been incurred. The first story on the murder reported:
Last Saturday [December 7], Mr. Charles Moore and his two partners
left their camp, to come down to Dobbines Ranche, on the Yuba River.
When about four miles from their destination, they separated; Mr. Moore
came one road and his partners another; he had $2300, belonging to
himself and partners.
His partners arrived at Dobbins Ranche, and waited there for him.
After a short time, a Spaniard came to the Ranche, and said there was a
man who had been shot, lying dead above. Mr. Moore’s partners immediately went in the direction indicated by the Spaniard, supposing that
Mr. M. was the murdered man. They did not succeed, however, in finding
him that day.
The next day, Sunday, they took the Spaniard with them, and found
Mr. Moore lying in a small ravine, dead, with three slug wounds upon
him, one of which had penetrated his spine, and another had entered
under the shoulder and pierced the left lung. The murderers had rifled
the body of the money.
Suspicion attaches to three individuals, who are on the way below, to
take passage for the Atlantic States. We understand that a party has left
in pursuit of them.
Four days later, the Herald announced:
.. Since then, an arrest has been made in Sacramento City, of the
person supposed to be the murderer. He is an Englishman, from Sydney,
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