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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 APRIL 11-13, 1872 91 THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1872 MARRIED. At San Francisco, March 1, 1872, by Rev. D. D. Chapin, Mr. G. L. BENNETT of Grass Valley, and Miss MAGGIE STEVENS of San Francisco. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1872 COLD.—Wednesday night was about as cold a night has been enjoyed in this town during the Winter. Some of the fruit growers say that fruit was seriously injured by the frost, and others say that the frost only lessened the fruit of the trees so that a good crop is insured. ... GRAND LARCENY.—By law, the stealing, or the attempt to steal from any mining claim, tunnel, sluice, under-current, riffle-box or sulphuret machine, any gold dust, amalgam or quicksilver, is made grand larceny, and is to be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary from one to fourteen years. The stealing of quart specimens from a ledge, is also made grand larceny, and punished to the same extent. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872 EXAMINATION OF PETER DAWS.—The case of the People vs. Peter Daws, came before William Smith, Esq., J. P., yesterday afternoon for a preliminary examination. M. S. Deal Esq., District Attorney, appeared for the People, and A, B. Dibble, Esq., for the defendant. We give below the testimony in the case which fully explains the circumstances: JOHN BLACKFORD, SWORN: Reside on Mill street, Grass Valley, Nevada county, California, know the house of Matthew Rogers; reside near it; saw a difficulty between the defendant and also the injured man; saw the difficulty at a distance; it was about 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday last; the parties had been fussing some time; Mrs. Rogers went in between them; the defendant afterward took up a pick; the parties squared off at each other on the porch, from there they went into the house; sometime after entering the house, the defendant came out of the house and went on the bank and picked up a pick; Matthew Rogers then came out with, what I suppose in his hand, a long butcher knife or carving knife; he dodged down and struck at this young man; then the pick came down on Rogers; they then clinched, Rogers got him down, they struck at each other different times; Rogers with whatever he had in his hands; Mrs. Rogers then came up and caught defendant’s hand; took the pick from him and threw it into the creek; had some scuffling afterward; Roger’s striking this young man; this young man lay there sometime; thought he was dying or going to die; he called out that he was killed; I did not go over to where the difficulty was; I saw it from my porch, distant about 70 yards from where the difficulty took place; there was nothing that obstructed the view; should know the pick if I seen it; the difficulty occurred about 2 or 3 steps from the back door and near the porch; the difficulty occurred nearer the door where the pick was picked up; could not hear any words that passed between them; they both appeared much enraged, and supposed them both to be intoxicated; Rogers came out of the house with a knife, and made a thrust toward the defendant and returned into the house again; the defendants back was toward me; the wounded man came out of the house immediately after the defendant picking up the pick. Cross examined—I don’t think the defendant was out of the house a minute before Rogers came out; defendant had not got fairly out on the bank after coming out of the house before Rogers was after him with a knife in his hand and made a plunge at defendant dodging his head when the pick came down on him; should think the instrument was 15 or 18 inches long. Examination in chief—After defendant picked up the pick he appeared to be doing nothing but