The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-04
Affair at Sacramento.


.,nsuoI excitement was created yesterday,
occurrence NJ the Station House. IN which
bv the name OF :. .. Adams received a
mo-, n,ns wound from pistol while in the
o"DS lady whose daughter he was charged
n4D' ~, hovinc abducted and ruined.
,;rcpmstanccs Of the case arc briefly sta
,bout two mouths since thc mother with
49, ~ daughter left Philadelphia, to join her hus-
,.J IN this country. Adams, who had known
s,r,iIv at home, travelled most if not all the
- San Francisco with them arriving in the
,,,.nuental City several weeks since. On the
-,.h,ous, and during the passage up, he succee
d, I'm making an impression on the girl, who Is
.,renteen years of age, and a few weeks ago
,od her to leave with him for this city,
-,,ro they have stopped at the Sutter Hotel
che Queen City registered as man and wife.
r,.o mother. who came up on Wednesday, dis
.od their whereabouts yesterday, went to the
o,oon CITY and encountered her daughter. The
:l,ots Of the meeting were such as would ma
H., tronspire between fond mother and her
.biId separated under sach circumstances
Tho culty cause of their affiiction avoided Them
h,+ was taken into custody by the police. At
.huoo o'clock, the mother, Of unusual intellect
opd strength of purpose, proceeded to the Sta
zion House, and having obtained an entrance,
-, +ba r,ouest to speak few words to the pris-
oper. found him sitting in the ante-room IN COM
many with an officer, Approaching him she
asked if he intended to marry her daughter, ana
receiving an unsatisfactory resPonce' are" Il
ristol and discharged it, the ball entering his
r;rbt side near the tenth rib and lodging proba-
blv in the abdomen.
sbo was prevented from repeating the shot by
the interference Of the police, and left the scene.
INDIGNATION against him who had driven moth
er to such desperate revenge, reached high
pitch, but no farther demonstration was made,
the man being considered dangerously wounded.
He was soon after conveyed on a litter to the
Orleans Hotel, and medical aid rendered.
Adams is said to have lived in the country
since lS49. He is reported TO be amarricdman
with several children. We are informed that
the father of the girl left California to bring out
his family not two months ago, and passed his
wife and daughter on the way.
The mother was induced to the dreadful act
from the knowledge that there was no law here
to redress the wrongs inflicted upon her only
and dearly loved child.-SGcramlcnt Transcript.
The END OF THE SEDUCEE.-Married, at the
Orleans House, last evening, at o'clock by
Justice J. B. Mitchell, John Quincy Adams, to
Miss Emily Bond. Mr. Adams expired imme
distely alter the ceremony was performed.-He
was informed early in the evening that he could
not survive, and was requested to make AL the
reparation in his power, which he not only con
sented to do, but seemed earnestly desirous Of
at once marrying the girl who he had grieyously
wronged.
The mother was present, and gave her consent
to the marriage. The groom had scarcely clasp
ed his bride to his bosom, ere his spirit winged
its fight from earth. The attending physician
states that the intense mental excitement under
which he was laboring, fastened his dcath-that
If his mind had remained calm he would proba-
bly, have survived until morning.