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Title: 1872 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 281 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION NOVEMBER 9 & 19, 1872 247 and A. B. Dibble for the prosecution, and Mr. Reardan, of Marysville, for the defense. The testimony showed, as far as taken, that Mrs. Stanton had offered from $200 to $1,000 to different persons to kill or get Bill out of the way, and also that for many months the woman and John Stanton had been quarreling with him. John was laid up with a broken leg on the night of the killing, and when asked if there was any money in the house said no; when Mrs. Stanton immediately said there was, but it belonged to Bill. The examination thus far tends to show that Mrs. Stanton was concerned in the murder, and that her husband desired his death to secure his money and interest in the property; but she had an accomplice. Whoever is is, he has covered his tracks in a most successful manner, and shrouded the murder in mystery. Neither weapon nor foot-prints, nor marks of shot on the side of the building are left to give any clue. We hope the examination, which at last accounts was still in progress, will develop some further facts tending to point to all the parties concerned in the crime. We take the above from the Nevada Transcript of yesterday and add that the investigation was concluded on Thursday night without giving any direct evidence against any person. The Justice, however, held Mrs. Stanton to answer a charge of murder, and she was committed to the county jail. Acolored man, who resides at Mooney Flat, and whose name is Bateman [Barnard] Gaines, has also been held to answer. DISTINGUISHED DEPARTURE.—Ah Hin, of Chinatown, leaves Grass Valley this morning for a visit to China. He will be absent about ten months. Ah Him is one of the most successful Chinese financiers of this place and almost every one here knows him. We wish a happy voyage to the Celestial kingdom. RELIGIOUS.—The public services of the Methodist Episcopal Church are at present held in Hamilton Hall at 10:30 A.M. and 7 P.M. Sunday School at 1:30 P.M. The subject of the evening’s discourse, by the pastor, Rev. G. Newton, will be “Intemperance in our midst.” SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1872 The Mooney Flat Tragedy. The Nevada Transcript of yesterday contains the following; The examination in the case of Mary Stanton, charged with the murder of her brotherin-law, was concluded on Thursday evening. .. . The homicide was committed on Saturday night, November 2d, about 6 o'clock. The place is at Mooney Flat, and the dwelling of the Stantons’ stand [sic] back from the road, and is almost obscured from view by trees and vines. In the rear of the house is a corral, continuing perhaps an eighth of an acre of ground.... The shots must have been fired within twenty feet of the victim, and the circumstances point to a negro named Barnard Gaines as the person who did the shooting. He was at Stanton’s from Saturday morning until half-past 2 o’clock, and during the time talked frequently with Mrs. Stanton. He left in the afternoon, went to his cabin, and in the evening went to the ranch of Mr. Rowse. From the time of the shooting he had just about time to go from Stanton’s to Rowse’s by his own cabin. He is noted as an expert in the use of the shot gun and rifle and a great walker. He has been known to speak in terms of contempt for the deceased, and has been on intimate terms with the woman. There are many other little circumstances, all indicating that Gaines entered into an agreement with Mrs. Stanton to kill William, and that he did so. The motive seems to have been to secure the money of deceased and his interest in the property. Mrs. Stanton was held to appear before the Grand Jury on the charge of murder, and Gaines was placed under bonds of $2,500 to appear as a witness. Both parties were brought up by Constable Melbourne yesterday and lodged in the county jail.