Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-02
Important Purchase OF Mines in Arizona
by San Franciseans.
CALIFORNIA.
A Prominent LAWYER Drowned.

Prominent Lawyer Drowned.
BENIcIA, February 1st-Hon. John W,
Dwinelle, a lawyer Of San Francisco, with an
office at room Is, Montgomery Block, while
attempting to jump upon the steamer Solano
as she was moving cut of the slip at the Port
Costa side on Friday evening last, fell off the
cad of the apron into the Straits and was
drowned
SECOND DIsPATCH.I
BENIcIA, February lst-Hon. John w.
Dwinelle came to Benicia last Friday morn
ing on the $3.50 train from San Francisco, and
from the hotel here he went into the country
to transact some business with j. NJ. Will
Jams, a farmer. He returned to this city
and got on the train leaving here at $40 P. NJ.
for San Francisco. On arriving at Port
Costa he got off the train, and inquired where
the telegraph office was. On being informed,
the night being dark, he imagined the red
light at the outer end Of the slip to be the
telegraph Office, and ran hastily toward it.
As he was going up the apron in the slip,
within few feet of the end, he was hailed
and told that the boat had left. He paid no
attention. but went right on to the end of the
apron and fell over into the water aud was
drowned The affair came to light this
morning, upon the return Of j. M. Williams
from San Francisco, where he had been to
call on Mr.. Dwinelle Not finding him at
his office, he called at bis residence, when his
wife informed him that he Mr.. Dwinelle)
was in Benicia. This appeared strange, as
Mr. Williams babe him good-by at the depot
here on Friday evening, and he was then
bound for San Francisco. On Mr.. Williams
return this morning he made inquiries at
Port Costa, and was informed that a person
answering to the description given had been
drowned there Friday evening in the manner
above stated. Deceased was a brother Of
Judge Dwinelle of San Francisco, formerly
County Judge OF Contra Costa county. The
body has not yet been recovered.
THE REPORT FOUND TO BE TRUE.
SAN Francisco, February 1st.-A rumor,
which was current on the street at noon to-
day, that John w. Dwinelle was drowned
near Benicia on Friday of last week, is found
to be true. He went on that day to visit
relatives at Benicia, where he dined, and
afterwards set out for home. He was seen to
go on board the ferry-boat Solano, and was
afterwards seen by the Captain on the Port
Costa side By some mischance he fell into
the water, either from the boat or the wharf,
and was drowned. Particulars of the acct
dent have only just reached the city. His
death at the time could lot have been
known to any one. 1t was only after a pro-
longed absence that inquiry was made for
fallen overheard into the river, but his name
and place of residence were unknown. John
w. Dwinelle was born at Cazenovia, n. Y,
about the year 1916, and was about 81 years
| old. He graduated at Hamilton College, and
studied law in Cazenovia and Syracuse. He
practiced for while in Rochester and Ann
Arbor, and came to this state in 1S49, and
returned to the East in 1858. Alter remain
ing a few years he returned, and settled down
in San Francisco. He had large practice,
especially in land cases. He mastered the
Spanish language, and was thoroughly ac-
quainted with Spanish land titles and the
history OF Mexican colonial times. Mr.
Dwinelle drew the original charter of the
University, and as member Of the Legisla-
measure through that body. He sesved for
some years as member of the Board of
Regents, and had previously filed the office
of Mayor of Oakland. He married for the
| SECOND time a few years ago, and resided for
while in the city of Alameda, but more re-
Gently changed his residence to this city.