Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-18
PACIFIC COAST.
SPECIAL TO THE REC coRD-UNIoN
A TRAGEDY IN soNOMA COUNTY.
Two Brothers Shot and Killed by Two
Other Brothers.
TWO DRUNKEN MEN DROWNED IN CLEAR LAKE.
A Nevada County Ditch Agent Probably
Frozen to Death.
TIE BONANZA SUIT DRAWING TO A CLOSE
A Nan Lives Three Weeks without Food
in Cabin at Virginia.
CALIFORNIA.
The Gotta Case.

SAN FRAEcIsCo, December 17th.-The case
of Clodemiro Gotta, the Mexican revolution
ist, came up this morning, pursuant to the
order of the Court, in Department No. of
the Superior Court, and Judge Alien rendered
decision that the State Courts had no juris-
diction in the case, and accordingly discharged
the writ of habeas corpus and remanded Gotta
into the custody of the Mexican Consul.
Sheriff Desmond, having previously received
the writ Of the United States Court, immedi-
ately took Gotta before Judges Hoffman and
Sawyer.
Mr.. Peachy said: May it please the Court,
the Sheriff has brought the prisoner Gotta
into Court and is now ready to make his re-
turn. L. H. Reynolds, attorney for the
Sheriff, then read the return. Judge Sawyer
received the return and said he understood
that the Superior Court had decided that it
had no jurisdiction in the matter.
Mr.. Peachy-I ask that the prisoner be
rernanded to the custody of the United
States Marshal, so that there viii be no at
tempt made TO get the prisoner on board the
Mexican gunboat.
TIE Court-Let the order issue. The pris-
oner is hereby remanded into the custody OF
the United States Marshal.
Mr.. Peachy-Will the Court set day for
the hearing of the writ
Judge Hoffman-It is impossible to do so
at present. There is an intricate and long
case before US, and it cannot be set aside for
this matter. [ will set the date some time
early next week.
The Bonanza Suit.
SAN Francisco, December 17th.-The trial
in the case of John H. Burke against James
C.Flood was resumed to-day in the Superior
Court. James G. Flood was called as wit
ness in rebuttal for plaintiff He had re-
ceived 100 shares of stock from Dan Cook
for FIVE feet of the Kinney ground. Seth
Cook wanted 100 shares from Flood. and was
willing to pay back by getting for Flood 100
shares that would come to Dan Cook if Con.
Virginia would accept Cooks deed for five
feet OF the Kinney ground. This closed al
the testimony in the case. The Court room
was very much crowded. The arguments of
counsel will commence on Monday next, two
days for each side.
Two Brothers Murdered.
PETALUMA, December 17sh-Wm. Mullen
and brother. name unknown, were shot and
killed yesterday morning bv Albert and Al
fred Quackenbush, at the Kellogg ranch, ten
miles east of Santa Rosa. 1t seems there
has been some trouble between the four
brothers about land In disputed possession,
and it is supposed the shooting resulted from
this. The murderers are in custody, and
further developments are awaited with great
interest.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
SANTA Rosa, December 17th.-About 10
o'clock Thursday morning Albert and Fred
Quackenbush, said to be twin brothers, APP
peared at the Sheriff's office with their attor-
ney, Judge Thomas Rutledge, and surren.
dered themselves to the custody of the
Sheriff, stating that they had killed William
and Charles Mullen in self-defense. About
the same time Fritz Wendt came in from his
mountain ranch, nine or ten miles east of
Santa Rosa. and reported that William and
Charles Mullen, who residein his neighbor-
hood, had been murdered, and that their
dead bodies were lying near their residence
in the mountains. Justice Laughlin was
also notified, and he, in company with the
Sheriff and District Attorney and several
citizens, started at once to the scene of the
homicide, where Coroner's jury was
fortunate dead, in charge of the Coroner,
were removed to town. The facts asserted in
the neighborhood where the homicide oc-
Cured are as follows William and Charles
Mullen and members of the Quackenbush
family were contesting claimants to certain
sections of land, 40 acres of which was cor
frmed by the Register to the Mullens. The
othel party took an appeal to Washington,
and the case is now pending there. A half
breed Spaniard named NJ Micarali, who was
employed by the Quackenbushs, seems to
have been the only witness to the killing
The dead bodies of the Mullens were found a
short distance apart, near a new fence that
was being built near the Mullens' residence
Charles Mullen was shot with a Winchester
rifle, the ball entering the right side four
inches below the right nipple, passing hori-
zontally and to the left through the liver and
stomach. William Mullen was shot with a
Colts large-sized six-shooter, the ball enter
ing four and half inches above the right
nipple, passed little upwards and to the
left, fracturing the fourth rib and passing
through the lung, cutting large artery and
burying itself in the spinal column. The
physician who held the post mortem thinks
that neither lived m0ie than fifteen minutes
after being shot.
CorOners Inquesi-MeId TO Answer.
STOCKTON December 17th.-The Coroner
held an inquest this afternoon over the body
of Charles Hamilton, who took morphine last
night and died before O'Clock this morning.
The Jury found that deceased was native of
Indiana, had been in the State five years,
lived recently at Volcano, Amador county,
and administered the fatal poison with his
own hands.
j. B. Damrel, who fred pistol at James
Hunter in saloon in this city on the 4th
inst, had a preliminary examination before
Justice Minta to-day on charge of assault
with deadly weapon with intent to kill. He
was held to answer a charge Of assault with q
deadly weaDou with intent TO do hodilv harm