The daily gazette., 1879-08-01
FIFTH EDITION.
KILLED IN CALIFORNIA.


A DELAwAREAN WHO WENT WEST II
Nj U r u e RED "DETAILS OF THE
CRIME.
Mr.. Thomas Samworth, of this city
who went to Colorado on March 4th, re
turned last night and brought the infor-
nation of the killing of Joseph Jaggard
who was born and raised near Newark,
and who left New Castle County Just
after the close of the war. The only in
telligence that Mr.. Samwolth brought of
the matter was clipping from the
Btggs Register, published at Biggs,
California
This was given him at Tablow, Won
datto County, Kansas,by II. ii. Jaggard,
brother of the murdered man, with the
request that he have it inserted in the
GAZETTE. The dead man was about
40 years old and was a staunch Demo-
crat. AT one time during the Rebellion
an attempt was made to lynch him near
Newark. The clipping from the Register
is as follows:
"Thursday evening at 7.2O Joseph F.
JaSgard, well to do farmer, of the
farming firm Of Jaggard u Gilkyson,
living six miles north of town, was stab
bed through the heart with bowie
knife, by man lately from Stanislaus
county, calling himself Frank Peterson.
The circumstances and facts of the case,
as shown before the Coroner's jury, are
about as follows:
About 7:2O o'clock p. m, Mr.. Jaggard,
who had been in town nearly all day,
was preparing to 60 home, and for some
purpose crossed the street to the railroad
depot, close to where this man Peterson
and another man, whose name is un-
known, were sitting on the edge of the
platform.
A good many harmless witticisms had
passed between Mr.. Jaggard and the lat
Ter person during the day on politics
without any otfense being taken on eithef
side. The joking was renewed In the
same good natured way between Jag
gard and this man, who was at the time
iting beside Peterson, Peterson, listen
ing, but taking no part in the converse
tion until Jaggard started to cross the
street, ard haf gone about fifteen feet,
when Peterson sung out to him that he
had heard enough from him-or some
thing to that efiect-whereupon, Jaegard
turned around and made some such re-
mark as "Hhat business is it of yours you
damned s. of b., at which Peterson,
without saying word, jumped up and
running to where Jaggard was standing
IN the middle of the street, plunged his
DO we knife into him twice, once in the
a6ndmen and once about two inches be-
low the left nipple, between the fourth
and fifth rib,piercing the left ventricle of
the heart--killing him almost intantly.
Immediately after doing the stabbing
the murderer attempted TO escape, but
was overtaken and captured within forty
Yards distant by A. F. Lashells, and de-
livered to Deputy Sheriff Flint, who
lroned him and put him in the lookup.
For whlle intense exc tement prevailed
and strong disposition was manifested
by some OF our best citizens to hang him
forthwith. In fact rope was
being prepared for that purpose
when Deputy Sheriff Flint, who
early in the excitement forsaw
the danger of keeping the prisoner in
town over night, drove up to the station.
house with spring wagon, quickly took
The prisoner aboard, and with several
gentlemen as guards, started by the way
OF back street for Oroville, where they
| ~ "hhOho interruption anu OcllV
ed their prisoner to the Sheriff. So colo
blooded ard unprovoked was the murder
that the most conservative of our cti-
zens, while advising that the law be per-
mitted to take its course, would not
have raised hand to prevent summary
punishment. Had the prisoner been al
lowed to remain in town a half houl
longer we feel quite certain that he
would have been hung.
A post-mortem examination and Cor
oner's inquest were held, Justice Norman
OF Gridley presiding, establishing the
facts as to the murder about as we have
stated them, and verdict of willful
murder, against the man calling himself
Frank Peterson, redered by the jury.
The body of the murdered man was TAX
en- charge of by his friends and will be
buried to-day in the cemetery at Chero-
kee. The murderer is total stranger,
having only arrived in town on the morn
OF the day the deed was committed, and
seems to be one OF the better class of
tramps as he had two dollars and half
on his person when searched. He claims,
we believe, to hail from the State OF
Iowa.
The Register, it will he seen, does not
give the precise date of the crime, but it
must have taken place within the past
thirty days