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From: George Rushton <>
Subject: [CA-CEMETERIES] Reasons and causes of deaths/PG13 Rated
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:00:02 -0800 (PST)


Earlier this week some people were saying about the reason and causes of deaths, well here are two that are a little different, both died in Oakland, CA.

First is for a Lloyd S. Majors, age 42 years, white, married, was wagon maker, born in Ohio, lived in Oakland for about 7 months, does not list where his father or mother were born, place of death County Jail, died on 23 day of May 1884, about 11:11 a.m., and the the complications was Judicial Execution, the result of Autopsy Fracted and dislocation of Cerebel (not sure of the spelling can not read the handwriting) Vertebra, place of burial Mt. View Cemetery, date of Burial May 23, 1884.

Next is Nathan B. Sutton, age 59, single, farmer, birth place New Jersey, both father and mother born in New Jersey, place of death County Jail Alameda, he died on the 6 day of January 1888, no time, immediate cause of Death hanging by the neck, place of burial Mt. View, date of burial Jan. 10, 1888.

A couple of notes on these two men:

Majors, had owned a saloon, in Santa Clara County, he had set up a robbery with two other men, of a man who lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Well when the two men got there they found that the man they were going to rob, had friend over and they were playing cards. In the gun fight that followed both men in the cabin were killed. The two killers were caught and told of Majors, part in the robbery. One of the killers turn state witness, so that he would get life in prison, the other was convicted and hung in Santa Clara, Majors was put on trial for one of the murders and was convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. The people in Santa Clara, got mad and want him to be put on trial for the second one, Majors said that he could not be tried for the second case, but lost the fight. So they moved the trial to Oakland, where he was convicted, and sentenced to be hung. Now Oakland do not own their own scaffolding, so they rented the one that Santa Clara County, owned, t!
o top it off when he walked up the stairs, he saw is coffin, with his name on it below him.

For Sutton, he was a farmer in the Livermore Valley, and had been have been fighting with his neighbors for a number of years. He killed one of them, was tried, and sentenced to be hung. There were a number of delays, and when he was finally to be hung, he want to donate his body, to one of the medical schools, in San Francisco, well they did not that the body for his head was almost pull off his body, so that the people in Oakland, took up a collection for him to be buried, in own grave site, not in the potters field like Majors. One final point was in Monday's paper after the hanging, there a number of the sermons that minster in Oakland, had preached and they were against his hanging for they said that he was insane.

George





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