Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-31
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

JACKS PIcTURE.-Pfior to sending Jack
Dowd to the County Jail for trial. Chief
Karcher concluded to add Jacks picture to
the list in the rogues' gallery at police head
quarters, and invited him to go up town, as
he wanted to have his picture taken. This
Jack at once positively declined to do under
any circumstances, and said his picture never
had been in police gallery, and he would be
blown to Bahama if it ever should be while
he was alive. Opportunities were watched to
get a camera successfully aimed at him in his
unsuspeeting moments but this he constantly
suspicioned and watched for. Finally pho
tographer was secreted in the stable in the
rear Of police headquarters, and hole cut
in the stable door, with the front end
of the instrument close to the opening,
and all in readiness for take"
when Jack carelessly walked out of
the back door conversing with an officer,
and another one was carelessly standing in
such positiol as to conceal the hole in the
door. Just as Jack was in good range they
casually stopped and the man stepped away
from in front Of the door. but the instant he
did so Jack discovered the hole in the door,
and, throwing up his hands over his face, he
darted into the building like flash. No
when officer Jackson took the picture bust
ness in hand; Dowd meantime having been
transferred to the County Jail Having got
a camera arranged at a window in the
west Superior Courtroom, on the second floor
of the Courthouse, with old dusty papers
and other things arranged confusedly over
the window and an old black hat cover
ing the exposure through which the
instrument pointed, Jack with other
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the jail yard and accidentally two chairs were
left unoccupied into which Jackson and
Dowd in their conversation happened to drop
Jack had not forgot his previous experiences.
and looking up espied the hist in the window
and in an instant caught off his hat and
swinging it rapidly before his face shot into
the jail ike lightning, and in doing so run
against some fresh black paint most of which
he carried away on his white shirt sleeves.
Jackson went soon after to see what Dowd
ran for, and upon being told that he had sold
himself that time finally ventured out can
tiously 70 inspect for himself, and being told
1t was an Old store room up there where the
window was, infested with old papers con
tanning legal notices, and old judicial cast
off hats, etc, he concluded he had taken false
alarm, and in time sat down again and told
Jokes and stories with jackson, who sat IN
concerned close by. As soon as all was quiet
'aHd Jacks eyes were not in the direction of the
old store room window" the artist removed
the hat and took two instantaneous views
in different positions Of cautious Jack with
out the faintest distrust on his part but
Jackson's picture being also included in the
group, and Dowd having his hat or,
Jackson now, wanting to get still another
view with Dowd's hat off, suggested that his
head was not as big as Dowd's, and taking
his own hat eff to look at It Dowd did the
same bat the instant he did so thought he
discovered something at the window again,
and striking his hands quickly back and forth
in front of his face, and instituting quick mo.
tons Of the chin and mouth, to burst any
attempt that was being made again to get
his PHI, he bolted like an arrow into the
building, and refused to sun" any longer,
declaring that the old window up there. /
somehow or other has q damned suspicious
look to it, and | don't propose to give any
sittings for Karchers accommodation, nor
any other police arrangement; and if they
ever get my picture they will be smarter than
now"
ESCAPING HIGHwAYMAN.-Detec j. Z,
Hume Of this city writes from Pilot Hill to
the RECORD UNION, inclosing an account of
the robbery of the Georgetown and Placer
vile stage robbery of May oath The stage
did not carry the express box. A passenger
was robbed Of SOS in coin. That night, four
citizens, searching for the robbers, met them
on the grade nile west Of Greenwood. The
robbers fed into the thicket, the posse firing
after them. The next evening one of the
robbers appeared near Greenwood bareheaded
and with a fresh bullet wound through the
left upper arm, at a cabin about four miles
nom Greenwood, had the wound dressed, ate
a hasty meal, procured an old chip hat, and
left, going southwest. He is described as
being about so years Old . feet inches to
5 feet 10 inches high light complexion /;
sandy mustache and beard bald place on
top of bis head; wore dark coat and pants,
with tattered overalls over pants; left arm
In sling; holes cut III each boot at ankle !
bones old chip hat, rim somewhat
broken; dirty white shirt, with calico shirt
over it; carries a double-barre!ed shot gun
He is probably an American. The robbers
are believed to be the same parties who
robbed the Milton stage in Calaveras April
90. 1880, and attempted to rob the Jackson
and lone stage May 9th. No. , OF the rob-
bers in those cases is described to be about 50
years old, . feet inches high, dark eyes and
complexion, very dark bair and m0ustache,
dark or black clothes and hat. There are
liberal standing rewards for the arrest
and conviction of stage robbers. Thursday
last, about mile below Centeryille, Ell Do.
RADIO county, an Unarmed man attempted to
arrest the wounded robber above referred to,
but failed, the highwayman fleeing to the
chanarral in the direction of Mormon Island
1t is now known that the index finger OF this
robbers right hand is deiormed, the end
crooking ont from the second finger. Mr..
Hume believes the fellow is trying to get off
the divide" and thinks a bright lookout in
this direction may result in his capture.
UNIVERSITY Commensurate annual
commencement exercises of the University of
California will take place next Wednesday at
10:45 A. NJ, in the Harmon Gymnasium
Hon. J. w. Winans is TO deliver the grafton,
and representatives of the graduating class
will make addresses. In the afternoon the
Alumni of the University will hold their
second public anniversary. The Grafton on
that occasion will be delivered by Charles A
Garter of Red Bluff. The poem of the occa-
sion will be by May B. Treat.
PARDoNED.- w. Abbott, who took
$40. 600 from the Anglo-California Bank, San
Francisco, about two and half years ago,
and was convicted of grand larceny and SEN
fenced to three years in the House of Correc-
ton, has been pardoned by Governor Perkins.
Abbott after fleeing to Mexico and being
arrested there and released, as he could not
be held in that country, returned to San
Francisco Of his own accord and returned all
the money but $4,000, which sum he had
spent.
CENTURY PL4NT.-There is fine speci-
men Of the century plant in the yard of
Presley Dunlap, corner of Eleventh and G.
streets, which is taking the present year OF
Presidential aspirations for entering the last
stage of development prior to decay. 1t is
sending up its blossom stalk, with the pc
cuIiar grandeur of its kind, which has already
reached hight of about L feet, and proba-
bly, viii attain 80 to 10 in its entire growth.
COMMERCIAL Arrived Saturday and yes.
terday, steamer San Joaquin No. 8, from San
Francisco, with general merchandise and
barge of lumber to n. [. Drew & Co and
Sacramento Lumber Company steamer from
upper Sacramento, with barge of wood /
steamer Neponset, from upper Sacramento,
with general produce.
Personal Butler and party will |
leave Reno this morning in their special car
attached to the lightning express from Vir- |
ginia City, and arrive here this afternoon.