Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-26
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Saturday was the first payday at the
Harbor Commissioners Office, upon which
there was no money forthcoming for the
payment of salaries to employees.
John J. Coffey, the attorney found
guilty before Judge Lswler of having OBJ.
tanned SIS by means of false pretenses
from Sheriff Connolly, was Saturday SEN
fenced in the full money penalty, which is
three times the amount of money obtained,
namely, S45, and in addition thereto thirty
days imprisonment in the County Jail.
In Department Twelve Saturday, Joseph
Lanktree, the ex.policeman found guilty OF
burglary of the first degree, for having on
the night of the 10Th of last December
broken open a car of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, from which he stole
raw silk valued at $4,000, was called for
sentence, and sentenced to State Prison for
ten years.
Just as the steamer Ell Captain started on
her $50 trip Saturday afternoon, man
about 80 years of age deliberately pulled
off his coat and jumped overheard in front
of the paddle.wheel. A rope was thrown
to him from the Petaluma, which was
backing about the same time, and not rel
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and was rescued.
Nine hundred and sixty-four immigrants
arrived during last week by the two over
land routes. This is the largest number
arriving in one week for more than five
years. The majority of them are young
men and heads of families, in quest of
homes in our State, and have been fur.
nished with all necessary information by
the Immigration Association.
Since the restriction law went into opera
ton Chinese passengers from China without
certificates emitting them to land from
China steamers in quite number of cases
have duped the authorities in this port by
passing themselves off as members of the
vessels crew. To put a stop to this prac-
tice hereafter, it has been decided to give
to each one belonging to the vessel a tag
bearing the owners accurate description,
which he will have to present upon leav
ing the vessel.
The police force is still hunting for John
S. Gray, the defaulting Secretary of the
Harbor Commission, but as yet no trace of
him has been discovered. Every water
craft of every description, every outgoing
train and every vehicle leaving the city
has been searched for the much. looked-for
individual. The general impression is that
he is still in the city, secreted by friends
The experts in the investigation of Grsy's
| defalcations continued their work to a late
hour Saturday night, resulting in the dis
covery of Seven more doctored" re-
ceipts, showing an additional deficiency of
SO, 100. This increases the discrepancy on
the receipts to SIS, 764 AZ, and swells the
total ENLIGHTENMENT, thus far discovered,
to S45, 434 81. This investigation is not
yet half concluded
The extraordinary recovery of D. NJ.
Verdenal, the lawyer, from the serious in.
juries received by him last Saturday, is
creating considerable comment. The case
| is unparalleled in surgical works. He was,
as stated, struck by the pole of runaway
team, trampled on and run over by the
horses, parting kick striking him on the
! back Of the head and inhictipg severe
scalp wound, threw him fifteen feet (meas-
ured), turning somersault in his fight
and striking with thud on the pavement.
He was taken up insensible and with life
apparently extinct no pulsation only a
faint movement of the heart could be dis
cerned by the instrument used. He lay in
a comatose state three days, and in the
mean time consultation of surgeons pro-
nounced his case extremely critical, if not
hopeless. On the fourth day he recovered
consciousness, is now conyalescent and in
fair way of recovery.