Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1875-06-17

Cne worse IOr 1ef. lneH Lney went
away, and | went into her room and
staid for an hour or an hour and u
half. Then she got up and put OIL her
clothes and went out to the stable
where the dead body lay, behind the
horses. Then she said:
"wHAT SHALL WE DO WITH IT?'
| said, F." Why don't you get your men
that killed him to bury him ?" She
said she was so excited that she didn't
think of it. She said II we dug a hole
in the manure and covered him up
until such time as she eelld get a
shovel, it would do. We both took
pitchtorks and covered the dead body
up, and put smoother over it-that
is kind of board and 1t remained
there till 10 O'Clock the next day. Then
she walked the next night up the hill
to Peisters and got shovel, and she
picked out place to bury the body,
close to the sand-hill. We put him
about-well, from two to four feet in
the ground. She got bed-qult off
the bed and wrapped him in it. She
took hold of his feet and took hold of
his head, and we put him on the
SlliOOltltI anu We CdIIltu ilIIll dlOIiSs
Yes, she did; she helped pack the
corpse from the barn to the grave.
She wasn't strong enough to carry the
body the whole distance, and we sot it
down three times in the field before
We got to the grave. She said she
would go and take broom and smooth
the grave over. Then we came to the
house and made a cup of tea and had
a smoke. / sat in the rocking chair
and she sat in my lap until quarter
to 4 the next morning. Meantime,
her husband had been speaking of go
ing down to Tompkin TO see Doc Will
hanson; so she says, "Now's Il good
chance; you go and take the two big
horses and the buggy, and go down to
Los Angeles and sell them as soon as
you can, and send some money for me
TO come down; because | have got to
give Louis some money!
SELLING THE PROPERTY.
Monday morning I sold the wagon
to an auctioneer in Temple Block,
think 1t was, and I went to the tele-
graph office with him, and he sent
$40 by telegraph to her on Saturday
night. She arrived at 10 o'clock Sun
day, and we took rooms in the Pico
House, on the third floor, In room to
the South. The second night after
her arrival there, this man Lewis
came to the room and she gave him
$3.50. took the money out of my
pocket and put it on the bureau, and
then walked out. When he went
away came back and the money was
gone. She bought what she wanted,
and that day sold the horses for S225,
out of Jake Metzger's stable. gave
her the money, and she took out $40,
and said, "Here, you had better keep
that" We went from there to Will
mington, after two or three days. She
said. Il will tell the people when we
get back that he died at Sullivan's,
below Los Angeles, and was buried at
that place; that he died of iuf1amnla-
ton of the bowels. Then we took The
stage and arrived home on Sunday
night about shutdown. The next
morning she requested me to get the
horses out of the pasture and take
them TO John Priester's. She bought
a black veil and black scarf and some
other
MOURNING ARRANGEMENTS
In Los Angeles to wear. When she
got TO Priester's, Mr.. triester helped
her off the wagon, and she began to
cry and tell about her husbands death
and where she buried him. That was
about or 10 in the morning. ! called
for her at & o'alnok in tho ..ftorneo",
and took her home. She SAID that her
crying up at Peister's had done some
good, and made them believe her
story. When we went home, John
Schultz came down with Widow Bal
ley's horse and buggy, for her to come
up to the widows house and stay till
she could go to her fathers, and then
she had another cry. She declined to
go, and said she would prefer to stay
where she was. And then Mrs. Mack
came there next day, and she had an
other hysterlcal performance, crying
and kissing, ANT one thing or another,
and | left the room. Then she went
down TO Bailey's and had another cry.
Then she cried the first time anybody
came to see her since she got back and
sometimes she gave them a second
dose. And there the man lay dead,
within three hundred yards of the
house, and she helphed pack him
there, helped cover him up, and sent
the children every day to play and
throw sand on the grave! She left a
pan of rags on the grave, and told the
children to throw them around there.
She says then, I" II they see where the
sand has caved off they will think the
children done it, The day she left
the ranch she gave me $40, which
was due me. Then she told me before
she left the ranch for me to come after
her on Monday; that the business
would all be SET tied up so that | could
take her and the children away. l
done so, and paid So for team, and
we put up at the Ortega House at
Santa Barbara. | booked her name
as G. Norton, but the man made a
mista he and put it down as c. Norton
and wife lem me see--I was drunk,
and | may have represented myself
as Norton-I cont want to tell you Il
lie about 1t.
THE FUGITIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
When we Went to San Francisco /
registered my name as j. M. Cotton
and wife. Next day she went to see
her sister, in hack, and the hackman
charged me ten dollars--another ten
dollars gone to -. We remained
here, it might have been week and
it might have been more; can't tell.
She bought what she wanted for her.
selfand her children, and she made
me some presents. She left her little
girl at her fathers, at Ha,fmoon Bay,
and Mr.. Lewis telegraphed to her faith
er that Carrie had come here, and that
she had married. Her father tele-
egraphed to tell Carrie to take her
child with her. She says: "Father
has telegraphed to me, my pet, to
come and take my child away" Nice