Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-25
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRAsc1sco, March %, 1865.

SAN FRANCISCO, March ~, 1868.
EDS. GOLD HILL NBws-GentIemen:-
The town seems to brighten up little, and
looks more business-like, as the Spring adj
vances. There are less idle men in town,
and more indications of thrifty trade are
apparent.
THE SANS soUCI VALLEY HORROR.
I wrote you last week of the discovery
Of the body Of q murdered man at Sans
Souci Valley, back of Hayes Valley, in
our western suburbs, on that morning.
Well, as you are aware already, the muir
derer was discovered, arrested, chain Of
ciIcumstantial evidence of the most direct,
damning and conclusive character was
produced, and the Coroner's jury found a
verdict, fully duplicating him in the horri-
BILE crime. It was made apparent that for
a miserable paste imitation diamond pin,
the young murderer, Burns, took his vic
tim, friend and associate, out to this
lonely spot, at late hour of the night,
and murdered him in cold blood-then
returned to town, got new horse to help
him draw back the buggy which had been
broken by the horses running away from
terror when the struggle took place, got a
shovel from the stable, dragged his VIC
TINS bloody corpse to the roadside and
buried it, then, coming back to town
again, went to the rooms of the murdered
man. took off his bloody garments and
put on clean ones from the wardrobe of
the victim, and coolly vert his way un-
suspected. The next day he offered the
supposed diamond to jeweler, and
learned for the first time that he had muir
dered man for dirty little gew-gaw,
not worth SIS. The whole testimony is
direct and overwhelming, and his chance
of escaping the gallows not worth q straw.
The community was Mortified by the re-
cital of the terrible, Notwithstanding
tragedy-but the story has already become
an old one, and is almost forgotten, so
drop it here.
THEATRICAL.
The Heron has subsidized for time-has
played out her engagement and retired for
the present from public observation.
Wheatleigh, with the excellent stock COM
pany, succeeded her at the Opera House,
where comedy now rules the hour in place
of the nightmare, St. Vitus dance, and
blind staggers style of high old tragedy.
The change is q welcome one. After
" Mazeppa and the Wild Horse of Tar
tary" had outrun the wolves and played
out the audience at the Metropolitan, Mrs.
Hayne, the ever pleasing actress and truly
meritorious artistic, came on the boards
with the new and deeply interesting
drama of lie Grand Mere" 1t is CAPT.
tally rendered by very good company,
but I regret to say that, after all it is but
moderately patronized. At the Eureka
Minstrel Hall, the notes of the old char
coal artists, so long familiar to the ears OF
San Franciscans, are heard no more.
Abecco, the dirty butte, is beyond the sea
performing under anothername, and Birch,
Backus, Simonson, Cotton, Wambold ct
ais, are gone East, or scattered around
the country. The Sager sisters, Goes.
Talbot, Charles, Medina, P. B. Isaacs and
others, have formed company, and are
performing there now. l went in there O
few minutes last night, and enjoyed the
Zouave Polka, by Senorita Maria, "a
very pretty young danseuse-very much,
and thought the rest Of the performance
tolerably fair. But that word "tolerably,"
my boy, I don't like to use it. had a
friend once who was persuaded into eat
ing tolerable egg. Would you believe
it, my boy, the very sight of hen fruit
made him iutolerably sick from that time
forward. l think that anything "toler-
able" had better not be dwelt on.
rHB MORTIMER CASE.
Mortimer, the would-be murderer Of
detective Rose, through excitement, after
the recognition of him by Rose in our
calaboose as he was e., route to San Quen-
tin under an alias of which wrote you
last week, agreed to reveal the hiding
place of the plumber which was taken by
him from the person of Charles l.. Wig
gins, Esq, after he had chlorofozmed him
in his bed at 7 o'clock in the morning.
On second thought he changed his mind,
however, and went over to San Quentin
for seven years with the secret still locked
in his breast. He told an officer on the
way over that ne had buried other prop
erty with it, the discovery of which
would make him stretch hemp" and
that he would die before revealing the Sc
cret. That he has committed crimes be
side which robbery is but a mild offence,
is not doubted, but to discover them and
bring them home to him Is hard matter
The discovery of the murder of Charles L.
Hill, already alluded to in this letter, was
due to the merest chance, and the discoy-
cry of the murderer was one of those
lucky hits which do not often happen.
We have people disappear here daily, and
nothing is ever heard Of them after, unless
the Coroner is called on to hold an in
quest on "the body of an unknown man
found drowned in the bay" or laborers
clearing away the earth for new build
ing, turn up the bones of some forgotten
dead man, and a crowd Of curious idlers
gather to speculate for few minutes as
to who the stranger could have been.
SHORT CARDS AT DISCOUNT.
Since Judge Shephsard rendered his
memorable decision last week, whereby
Charles Jackson, alias "The Clipper"
was convicted as vagranr, in spite of the
fact that he had real estate and personal
and was sent to the County Jail
for sixty days, not a single complaint of
strangers being robbed by such gentry
has been made at the police Office. Men
who have followed jayhawking as pro-
fession for years and grown rich at it,
have been obliged to abandon it Temporal
rily, and it is once more almost safe for a
stranger to go through Pacific street after
dark. wouldn't advise him to do SO,
however.
THE COLON.
I wrote you some months ago about
the case of the steam proneller Colon.