Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-26
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
WHO IT WAS.
The Identity of the Man Found in the
River Monday

The Identity of the Man Found in the
River Monday.
Reference was made in Yesterdays
RECORD UNION to the facts connected with
the finding Monday afternoon of the body
of an unknown man floating III the river
opposite Freeport, and the inquest held
thereon by Justice Scully of Washington.
Chief Jackson had for some weeks been
looking for and expecting information of
that character. About six weeks ago John
Brown, proprietor of a saloon at Second
and L streets, informed him that a man
named Mcdonald, who was employed as
line-tender on the barge of the steamer San
Joaquin, No. 3, had about two weeks pre-
viously left at his place one evening por-
ton of his clothing, etc, and had never
called for the articles nor had he Brown
heard of any one having seen him from
the time he left the saloon that evening to
go aboard his boat, though there was ten
days pay cominS to him from the steamer
company. 1t was Browns belief that
something must have happened to him.
either
FOUL PLAY
Or he had fallen overheard and drowned
Chief Jackson made inquiries at once, and
from that time he has kept the matter in
mind, believing that some day McDonald's
body would be found in the river. The
description of the body found on Monday
tailed with that given of Mcdonald so
closely that yesterday the Chief, accOmpan-
led by Brown, Justice SCully and Under
taker Kavanaugh, went TO the cemetery to
disinter and examine the remains. When
the body was exposed Brown identified it
by the general appearance and clothing as
that of the missing sailor and there was
also corroborative evidence in the form of
an old injury to the end of the foretinger of
the left hand which Mcdonald had
told Brown was bitten during a
fight. A close examination of the
head of the deceased showed that what
had been taken at the time of the
inquest to be bullet wound-the ball hav-
ing glanced from the skull, and emerged
from beneath the scalp q short distance
from where it entered-was in fact an in
jury inflicted by a blow with some weapon,
which, just above the right ear, had
. CRUSHED THE SKULL,
While the marks taken for powder burns
were the discoorations caused by the blow,
extending to the right eye, which was
bloodshot The body was not badly de-
composed, considering the time it was in
the water, having probably been covered
with sand most of the time. Among the
property left by Mcdonald at the saloon
were two memorandum books, containing
a few papers. Two of these were hospital
and poll tax receipts made out in the name
of George Mcdonald, and obtained by him
in Yreka township Sisldyou county, in
1888. There was also a receipt made
out III the name of John y.
Mcdonald, in Yreka. same year; also
a registered letter receipt issued at
Mount Shasta postoffice, January %, 1854,
to John \. Mcdonald, the letter being di-
rected to 204 Montgomery street, San Fran
cisco; and another registered letter receipt
from the office at Lakeview, Or, August
u. 1884. to John \. Mcdonald, the letter
being directed to the Home Benefit Asso-
citation, San Francisco. 1t is not known
whether George and John y. Mcdonald are
the same person, or relatives, but the above
facts are given in the belief that they MAJ
lead to the discovery of his or their friends.
1t is the belief of Chief Jackson that the
deceased was murderously assaulted by
some one and thrown into the river, though
ii is possible that he fell in accidentally and
received the fracture of the skull AT the
time.
Nor EASILY SruMPEp.-A Chinaman who
was being chatfed by some white men re-
Gently swallowed without gasping a tough
snake story. renarking: Oh, that nothing
to China snake. In China there awful
snakes. One kind snake have two heads
one at head end, one at tail end. ; pose
You thlow lock, club bleak him in two,
both heads come ut you-kill you. lis
listeners couldn't accept his snake as easily
as he had theirs, and began asking ques-
tons, in order 10 break down his evidence
One of them inquired, How does the
snake do, if one head wants to 80 one way
and the other to go another The China
man looked al his interrogation with scorn
"China snake never do that way, he re-
piled China snake no - fool ~
BARw1cK's REroRr-rhe Signal Service
reports at o'clock last night shows a fall
ing barometer in Washington Territory
and Oregon, and rising in California, with
southerly and westerly winds. Clear
weather prevails from Tatoosh to Red
Bluff and from San Francisco to San Diego,
it being cloudy az the above hour only al
Sacramento. Sacramento got left yesterday
on the foul-weather sunset, but San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles did not. AT 5
O'clock last night Sacramento and San
Francisco reported a foul-weather sunset,
and it IS to be hoped that Sacramento will
not be left to-day without an appreciable
precipitation OF moisture.
PoIIcR CoUFr.-In the Police Court yes
terdav the case of Fong Cling Gong, for
nisdeineanor. was continued until to-day
Ioseph Kelly was found guilty Of bat
torv and fined Sl0......Iohn Harrison was
convicted on a charge OF yagrancy, and sent
to tbe County Jail for thirty days. Billy
Tndson. arrested for visiting an opium den
forfoited his deposit. Billy Wigs, ar
rested at the same time Tor IKE oifense
concluded 20 stand trial, and his case vii
be taken UP this morning. +. +: ray les
for having been drunk, was fined -, or five
DAYS in the city jail..-.Ihe case OF T.
Kelly, for misdemeanor, went over uhu
to-day.
DrNpEp INTO LAKE CoMo.-Yesterdal
morning the driver of the delivery Wagon
of S. ]. and J. NJ. Jackson drove down t
tho China slough to dump therein som'
scraps of tin and iron, the refuse oil thel
I'm gbon The driver backed the wagon VI
to the steep bank, when the latter starte'
~ RIM into the slough and pulled the horS'
in after it. The driver managed TO hoid OF
70 tho horses head until he freed him from
The Wagon. The horse then swan acros.
the lake and came out on the other side
Where the wagon entered the slough thu
water is about twenty feet deep.
MILLINERY OPENING at Mrs. Barber d
Pealer's, March Goth, 9th and 2sth.
See Saturday advertisement for extra bar
gains Red House.