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18 JANUARY 21 & 23, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION
The Mexican who outraged the little girl has a loathsome disease and has communicated it [to] his
victim, as the physician think from symptoms now manifesting themselves.
Many ladies of Nevada city, we understand, have visited the child and the mother to render
assistance and to offer sympathy. There is but one feeling in the whole community and that is
of sorrow for the child and her parents and of deep and inexpressible indignation toward the
scoundrel who did the deed. Killing the monster by inches is too good for him. To take his life is a
poor satisfaction for the father of the child. An eternity of the punishment of the most excruciating
hell would not be sufficient according to our view of the crime, for that Mexican. The fiend is badly
wounded and will, it is said, die of his present wounds. He is paralyzed and is suffering intensely. The
people up at Eureka South want to hang him, but Mr. Dillon, the father of the girl, will not consent.
Nevertheless that scoundrel will not live through another week. This earth is [too] small to contain
the monster and the determined father of that innocent little girl. The people say amen.
TO BE TAKEN TO JAIL.—The Mexican who committed the rape on a little girl, last Sunday
at Eureka, is to be lodged in the county jail. We infer from that fact that there is no rope in Eureka
township.
JAPANESE VISITORS.—We learn from a most reliable source that three of the Japanese
Ambassadors, who lately arrived at San Francisco, will visit Grass Valley within a few days. These
three passed over the Central Railroad, yesterday, on their way to Virginia city, and on their return
will stop at Colfax and come to Grass Valley. The object of the visit is to look at the gold mines of this
district. The visitors should receive a fitting welcome and reception.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1872
[DEATH AND] SUICIDE.—Sunday afternoon, William A. Johnson committed suicide at
Austin’s Ranch. The ranch is about 15 miles in a south westerly direction from Grass
Valley. Johnson was a native of Pennsylvania and came to this county about four months
ago, the object of is coming being to benefit his wife’s health. He stopped at the ranch of
his brother-in-law, Hiram Austin, of this place. On Saturday last his wife died. On Sunday
afternoon while the remains of the wife were being deposited in the coffin, Johnson
committed suicide. He went into a bedroom of the house and taking a rifle tied the trigger
to a bedpost; he then placed the muzzle of the rifle against his left side and by pulling
discharged the weapon. The ball, which was a large one, passed through the body but it
is supposed that all large blood vessels were missed as the man lived several hours after
the shooting. Had the heart or any of the large blood vessels leading to or from the heart
been cut, death would have been more rapid. News of the suicide was brought to town,
but no officer went out to hold an inquest. Johnson is represented as having been a very
affectionate husband, and it is probable that he was made insane by the death of his wife.
Some say that she owned property in Pennsylvania where she has children by a former
marriage, and that she had made a will which the husband was anxious to see, but which
was refused him. An inquest should have been held. [See more about this in the January
27th Grass Valley Union.]
NATIONAL GAZETTE.—The National Gazette of Nevada city will soon be issued as a weekly.
The proprietor of the paper is Leonard P. Dorsey, a most worthy young gentleman, known to almost
all our readers. He is a good square young man, and he will make a paper which is worthy of
support. The editorial department will be conducted by M. H. McRae, who is experienced in every
department of the business. The paper under the new arrangement will be issued Saturday of next
week. The proprietor intends to conduct his paper on true business principles and “Uncle Mac” the