Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-08
GEORGE II. PINNEY.

The Sacramento Record Union o.
October ) has long communication
| from Vallejo concerning the case OF
George NJ Pinney the defaultine
Paymaster's purchasing clerk, about
whose doings and shortcomings sc
much has been said of late. We eX-
tract as follows from this narration
He was from the central Terrific
ries here, and it is on the wings OF
rumor that his transactions IN the
East were not to his credit. He was
4 man of no ordinary ability quick
witted, happy in repartee, OF some
what extended information and llbe-
raj education. q fair politician, a. till-
ent speaker, and all that. While
never truly taking leaders part
here, vet he had a prominent place
in politics. and his name in election
eering eras oft appeared in three
inch block type, in deepest shades,
with complimentary prefaces and
when his tall form. wcll-built and
nebly bearded. rose behind the
stump rail of the campaign stand,
and his full tones took up the party
plant. it was not to be questioned at
all that he did not deserve the long
type and the "poster" glory. He
was a legislator il Montana-Spea-
ker of the House. indeed. He fol-
lowed along the line of construction
as the Union Pacific Railroad pushed
westward was alternately teaching,
specializing, log-rolling III bust
ness, out of business and even
came, it is alleged, TO the necessity
Of compromising cocktails behind a
walnut topped bar. In one of the
GIBBS of his fortunes, he mixed the
crimson stoushton with the amber
brandy and the turgid water of the
river. in saloon in Sacramento.
But he was made for greater things.
With an exterior to win and please,
q tact to rise and gain confidence
and esteem. he possessed the genius
OF littleness in his shapely organism
WHICH listuc AluI "piAioi bC''tSA,
the oppressor of a chaste and faith
full wife, defaulter and forger to
the Government which honored him.
a fraud in the community that trus-
ted him. a deceiver of friends,
plunderer of the public purse. a
schemer to rob the nation he pre-
tended to love.
He acquired a homestead in Ala
media worth some SIS 900 or S20. 900,
and in a better moment decided it to
his wife. But near the close of his
career he besought her to sell the
home. This the brave woman re-
fused to do, and the Coble Pinney,
it is asserted on the best Of author
ity, proceeded TO coerce her by
knocking her down and dragging her
about the house by the hair of her
head. But she never signed the
deed. and holds the property to-day
with only an incumbrance of some
81 800 upon it. In his flight Pinney
left several horses. and these Mrs.
Pinney will probably be allowed to
retain, and their value will more
than clear off the mortgage. Now
that the Pinnev skeleton has been
unclosetad, it develops that for a
long time this sauve and polished
man has been a wife-beater, and
treated the mother of his children
with brutality. To add to all of his
infamy it is believed by those best
able to tell what they ought, that
Pinnev took with him in his fleeing
an artificially authenticated female,
as though he sought thus to put adj
ditional shame upon his suffering
wife and four children. But it is
some consolation to know that the
wife is we'll rid of graceless scamp,
and that his infamy cannot tarnish
her fair fame.
There seems every reason to be-
lieve Pinney took with him fully
81 SOC. 900 in money and valuables.
As he is a deserter, it seems proba-
BILE that he may be captured, for
deserter can be taken where the or
binary fleeing thief would find pro
lection by reason of want of extradi-
ton laws.