Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-21

Mine 0wner Murdered by his EmpIoye
ReDufy Sheriff Killed by n Mob.


Deputy Sheriff Killed bv a Mob.
BAKERsFIELp, October 10th. = CHI rIes
Ziegier and Scodie, are partners in mine at
Piute Mountain. Tom Herbert, an employee,
and Ziegler and Herbert worked the mine
Scodie lived at home on the North Fork
Ziegler and Herbert qaerreled last Thursday,
and the former went to Scodie's house to get
money. He came back and paid Herbert off,
and said he didn't want him any longer. The
above facts were witnessed By Frenchnan,
who has since mysteriously disappeared.
Next morning Herbert appeared at neigh
boris house, and said Ziegler was dead. He
thought that heart disease was the cause Of
his death, but hs hadn't examine him. Ziegler
was found with three bullet holes in his body
One ball entered the neck to the left and a
little below the chin. and lodged in the teeth
on the opposite side; another entered
the back and passed through the lungs.
Justice Goodale, of Havilah, was sent for,
acting as Coroner. He summoned . jury and
held an inquest. Herbert, the only witness,
testified that Ziagler came home in the even
ing that he had been drinking, and brought
q bottle of whisky that they drank together
q number of times. Herbert went to bed,
and Ziegler went TO his room, but came back
later with whisky, and asked Herbert to
drink, who declined, but finally drank.
Ziegler went off, and came later with
a bottle and cup, and asked Herbert to
take another drink. Herbert said he had
enough, and would not drink any more
After considerable talk he finally drank.
Herbert went to sleep, and in the morning
found Ziegler on the floor. near the bed, dead.
Did not examine him; did not know what
killed him heard no noise during the night
went to neighbors and told them Ziepler
was dead. Herbert's pants and boots had
blood On them The Judge asked for an ex-
PLANTATION. Herbert said that he found
Ziegler lying across his pants and boots when
he got up, and pulled them from under him
The Judge returned to Kernviils, and Con-
stable went up and arrested Herbert and
lodged him in Jail at Kernyille.
Night before last a mob of fifteen to twenty
started for the ISL to hang the prisoner, a
majority of the mob being drunk. They
were intercepted one hundred yards from the
jail by Deputy Sheriff Ben. Mitchell The
mob fired on Mitchell, who exclaimed, g Pm
hitlp The officer discharged his gun, loaded
with b1ckshot, mortAlly Sounding i'm Coeh-
ran, and then fell dead. Cochran is said TO
be the man who shot the officer. Cochran
was alive at last report. The mob dispersed
without getting their man. The Sheriff and
posse left fer Kernville last night
SECOND DIsPATcH.I
BAKERSFIELD, October 20lh-A dispatch
by telephone from Kernville gives the follow
ing additional particulars The mob con-
sisted of twenty-five to forty persons. On
the refusal OF Deputy Sheriff Mitchell to sur
render his prisoner, he was shot with shot
gun, the charge entering the stomach, and
with pistol, the ball penetrating the left
shoulder-blade, ranging downwards. Both
were fatal shots. James Cochrane one of
the parties who shot Mitchell, received she
ball fired by tbs wounded man in the right
breast He will probably recover. Mitchell
Is to be buried at 2 P. NJ. TO day. Hurbert is
still safe in Jail, the mob having dispersed
with the killing of the officer.
The Game Law Enopergtive in Southern
California.
STOCKTON, October 20th.-J. ?. Spooner,
Secretary of the State Sportsmen's Associa-
ton, has received from g. f. Merrima0, who
resides at Apex. San Diego county, q letter
under date of the 10sh instant, in which the
writer, among other things, says: The
game law, as it now stands on the statute,
is one which cannot be obeyed in this end Of
the State without involving nearly total de-
struction OF crops. Quail abound here in
vast hocks, as many probably as 5000 at a
time being seen together. They begin on our
wheat and other grain ss soon as it sprouts,
and keep at it until it is put in the sacks
Very few of us pass year without paying
tax to them of from FIVE TO twenty acres.
They destroy our garden vegetables. have
ten acres Of Muscat grapes, which they took
about all. We must trapor poison them, for
shooting is Of no avail. The law against
shooting deer must remain dead letter here.
My next neigbbor lost twenty-one acres of
grape-vines by them. They ate every leaf,
and nearly all the vines. more than six weeks
ago. Another had to stand guard over his
vineyard every night for four months, shoot
ing every little while to scare them. Last
year they utterly destroyed four acres of
grape-vines for me. Now. what is to be
done? We live so far away that none of
your sportsmen will come here to clear out
these nuisances. As it is now we are obliged
to use poison to get rid Of quail, which might
as we'll be caught and sent fresh to market,
to be eaten by men instead of buzzards and