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From: Dee Sardoc <>
Subject: Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA -- 4 & 11 July 1858
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:57:54 -0800


Weekly Stockton Democrat
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
4 & 11 July 1858
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Sunday, 4 July 1858
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DEATH -- Patrick MAGUIRE, who has for some time been subject to
intemperance, was placed in jail for safe keeping Friday night and he died
the following morning. The Coroner’s verdict was that intemperance and
exposure was the cause of his sudden death. MAGUIRE was aged 45 years.

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DEATH at the KEY-STONE HOUSE -- S.F. ‘Herald’
About 4 weeks ago a man calling himself A. JOHNSTON, and in the last stages
of consumption, came to this city and put up at the Key-stone House, on
Jackson street, below Front.

A few days ago he entered the office of Dr. PORTER, 2 doors below the
Key-Stone House, and engaged in conversation with Mrs. PORTER, who very
kindly visited his apartment, and endeavored to pay him those little
attentions that women only know how to render.

Affected by the kindness he received at her hands, a little while before
his death, that happened yesterday morning, he told Mrs. PORTER that he
would divulge a secret to her, that had never before escaped his lips in
California.

He stated that JOHNSTON was an assumed name, and that his real appellation
was Inslay DEBOLT, a native of Ohio, where he has a brother residing. He
came to this country some years ago, and after accumulating enough, sent
home for his wife, remitting the funds to pay her passage. She came as
directed; but soon after her arrival, he learned that she was living with a
man in Stockton, by the name of John BLACKWELL.

The blow was more than he could bear, and an absorbing grief settled on
him, which soon hurried him into a decline. Some time since he met his wife
either in Stockton or Sacramento, when she told him that she was anxious to
marry BLACKWELL; he replied that he would interpose no objection. He
requested Mrs. PORTER to open his valise, examining his papers and write to
his brother in Ohio, informing him of his death.

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DEBAUCHERY and DOUBLE DEATH in SAN FRANICISCO -- A dreadful scene of
debauchery and death was presented Friday afternoon at the shanty of
Timothy BRUCE, San Francisco.

The ‘Bulletin’ says that on Friday afternoon, about 3 o’clock, one of the
BRUCE children was observed by a Mrs. WALTZ, who lives in the neighborhood,
to be crying in the street, and upon interrogating her as to the cause, the
child replied that she thought her mother must be dying, as she could not
speak or move, and was so cold.

Mrs. WALTZ immediately, in company with a neighbor, proceeded to BRUCE’s
shanty and found a scene which almost baffles description. In the middle
room of the house, on a bed, lay the body of Mrs. BRUCE, perfectly dead;
the clothes disordered, and everything in confusion. On a trunk near the
foot of the bed and with his head fallen upon the feet of his wife, lay
BRUCE, stone-drunk, and incapable of rising, or in any way helping himself.

For the purpose of allowing Mrs. BRUCE to be examined, the husband was
carried into the front room and placed upon a sort of bed made for him
there. He was still alive, but so much intoxicated that he fell powerless.
He had not been lying long, however, before he died, and he was found
shortly afterwards, when attention was attracted to him from the dead body
of his wife, to have expired, having either drawn the bedclothes over his
head, or they having been thrown upon his head.

Mrs. CUMMINGS was in the house, and pretended to be taking care of Mrs.
BRUCE, but was herself so drunk that she did not know the poor woman was
beyond help, and that in fact she was nursing a corpse. It is supposed that
these dreadful deaths were occasioned by poisonous compounds sold under the
name of brandy.

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TERRIBLE ACCIDENT -- S.F ‘Alta’
One of those peculiar fatalities which at times mark a community, occurred
yesterday in this city [San Francisco].

Mrs. REGAN, the wife of the well known confectioner, on Montgomery street,
near the Mechanic’s Pavilion, about 10 o’clock A.M., while passing down a
small ladder leading from the roof of her residence -- where she had been
engaged hanging out clothing to dry -- to the roof of a rear addition,
slipped and fell.

In the fall her left leg was forced through a window, severing the muscles,
arteries and tendons, and cutting clear to the bone. The fall alarming the
family, she was quickly extricated from her perilous position, and conveyed
to her chamber, where a number of physicians were in immediate attendance.

From the loss of blood and the shock to her system, although everything
that science could command was brought to her aid, Mrs. REGAN sank and died
about 4 o’clock. Mrs. REGAN was an exemplary woman, well known and
respected for her disinterested charity and modesty and worth. She leaves a
family, the greater portion of whom are young ladies, who have already won
the admiration and esteem of a large circle of friends, who condole with
them in their severe affliction.


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Sunday, 11 July 1858
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BIRTH -- in this city, on the 4th inst., [to] Harrietta, wife of Capt. A.M.
TAYLOR (formerly of Columbia), of a fine daughter -- a bud of promise.

MARRIED -- in this city, July 3d, by Rev. Chas. DIERKING; Mr. David CONRADT
of Sacramento, to Miss Louise Elizabeth BAAS, daughter of Mrs. Catharine LAHL.

MARRIED -- in this city, June 30th, at the parsonage of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, by Rev. P.G. BUCHANAN; Mr. Samuel J. BROWN to Mrs. Mary
MORTON, all of this city.

MARRIED -- in San Francisco, July 4th, by Rev. J.B. HILL; Mr. William
ASHCROFT to Miss Sarah Ann KEAN, both of that city.

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DEATH by MISCARRIAGE -- Probably from Abortion -- Yesterday morning, Mrs.
Sarah SULLIVAN, a widow, died at her residence in this city. There were
many circumstances attending her case which gave rise to suspicions that
her death was caused by means to produce abortion. An inquest was had by
coroner SKINNER, yesterday.

One of the witnesses before the coroner’s jury said, deceased asked her
last week if she thought it was a sin for a person to take medicine to
produce miscarriage.

Another of the witnesses, Thomas B. POCK, said he had lived with the
deceased, and was engaged to be married to her, and that he paid her bills
and looked upon her the same as he would his wife.

On Monday he found her sitting on the floor; she told him she had become
sick and had partially fainted; he gave her a drink of water, when she got
up and went to bed. He wanted her to let him go for a doctor. He left her
and remained away until 11 o’clock of that evening, and when he returned he
again found her on the floor lying down, senseless; the floor was covered
with blood; he got her on the bed and then went across the street after a
couple of women and then went for a Doctor.

Nothing could be done to save her life and she died on the morning of July
2d, at 1 ½ o’clock. Several witnesses were examined, but we do not deem it
proper to publish their testimony in full. The following is the verdict of
the jury:

We, the jury summoned by Coroner SKINNER, to hold an inquest at the house
of John MURPHY, on Washington street, in the city of Stockton, over the
body of Mrs. Sarah SULLIVAN, do find that she was a native of Ireland, aged
about 30 years, and that we believe that her death was occasioned by a
miscarriage, but whether voluntary or by design, the jury are unable to decide.
B.W. OWENS, Forman
Moses SEVERY
G.M. DOLL
Noyes BAILEY
W.C. CULBERSON
C.D. GIBBES
J.L. WOODMAN
Wm. M. BAGGS
J.E. McKENZIE
H.K. CLIFFORD
E.R. STOCKWELL

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APPARENT SUICIDE -- Suspected Murder -- Great Excitement
A telegraphic dispatch to the S.F. ‘Times,’ dated Jackson, July 5th, 7p.m.,
says that on Sunday at 4 o’clock p.m., the wife of Dr. LYON, an old and
well known resident of Ione Valley, was found drowned in a well. She had
been missing from 9 o’clock in the morning. A vial of strychnine was found
in her pocket. Dr. LYON acted so strangely that suspicion rests on him. An
inquest is being held on the body. Dr. LYON acknowledges having accused her
of infidelity that morning. He was so intoxicated as to be unable to give
his testimony before the Coroner. Great excitement prevails in that
section. They have 1 child. Dr. LYON was at one time Coroner of Amador
county, and Acting Sheriff after the death of Sheriff PHOENIX.

FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR SAN PABLO -- ‘Bulletin’
We learn that a fatal accident occurred on Sunday, the 4th of July, near
Ocean View, on the opposite side of the Bay, above Oakland. A young man by
the name of Henry JOHNSON mounted a wild California horse, which ran off
with him. After running several miles the horse threw him, and he was
picked up so badly injured that, notwithstanding surgical assistance, which
was soon procured, he died in a few hours. The deceased was aged 21 years
and came from New Bedford. He had lately been at the Sandwich Islands, and
had gone over the Bay to spend a short time in the country.

FRAZER RIVER -- John LEAVITT, an old citizen of Sacramento, writing from
Victoria 17th of June, to the Sacramento ‘Bee’ says: “I have seen some of
the persons who have written glowing accounts to the papers, and they
haven’t money enough to buy a cold dinner. I have seen nearly all who left
Sacramento, and A.J. BRYANT is the only one doing much of anything.”


Transcribed by Dee Sardoch
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