Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-23
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

AGAIN on TRIAL.-The case of Jane L.
. Conner VS.. Lee Stanley, administrator, is
again on trial in Department Two of the
Superior Court, Judge Beatty, A. P. Catlin
and K. L. Devlin appearing for the plaintiff.
and Grove L. Johnson and A. c.. Freeman
for the defendant. Plaintiff seeks to re-
cover $4,000 claimed to be due because of
William Jarvis having failed TO fulfill a
marriage contract with her, in which he
agreed to give her $4,000 worth of the
Natoma Water and Mining Company's
bonds on or before the day of their marri-
age, they both being under agreement TO
marry within a reasonable time after the
contract was signed which was June 81,
1882. Mrs. Conner declares that she was at
all times ready and willing to perform her
portion of the contract and SO informed
MIR. jarvis more than once, but he DELAYED
and finally died before the wedding had
taken place. Mr.. Stanley was appointed
administrator of his estate, and Mrs Con-
nor, holding that she was entitled to the
$4,000, brought suit against the estate,
through the administrator to recover it.
Some months ago The case was tried by
jury, and a verdict rendered in favor of de-
PENDANT. Plaintiff appealed to the Supreme
Court, and the case was ordered back for a
new trial, on the ground that certain wit
nesses had been allowed TO give on the
stand their opinion on matters which if
was the province of the jury to determine.
1t is held by the defense that Mr. Jarvis
was not exactly right in his mind, that he
was especially susceptible on the subject of
spiritualism, and that Mrs Conner. know
ing this fact, worked upon his credulity to
the extent of persuading him to enter into
the marriage contract referred to- The case
is being tried this time without Jury, and
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number of witnesses are present from the
vicinity of Folsom where the parties re-
sided. Evidence for the plaintiff is in, and
the defense are well advanced with their
side Of the case.
WILLIAM KAY-The evidence corrobor-
atiye of the statements made by VIM Kay
as TO his whereabouts ON the day his
parents were murdered at Folsom was so
positive, as was shown in the last issue of
the RECORD UNION, that District ATTORNEY
Buckley decided that there was no occasion
Tor his being held in custody any longer
and he was accordingly released yesterday.
Alter providing himself with a new suit of
clothes, and indulging in the luxury of
bath and shave, all of which materially
improved his appearance, he left for Folsom
by the afternoon train. If it can be sub
stantated that Mrs. Kay died before her
husband, and 1t is generally believed to be
the case by those who visited the house on
the morning after the murder, the young
man will doubtless come into possession of
his fathers property, despite the will,
which left ii to Mrs. Kay. Concerning the
perpetrators of the murders the officers are
rs yet all at sea. The case brings to recol-
lection murder that occurred in Folsom
several years ago, when q mans wife was
stabbed to death, and he received slight in
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killed his wife, and then cut himself to dis
arm suspicion; but he claimed that some
unknown person assaulted them as they
slept, and he escaped being killed by Jump
ing out of a window. He was arrested and
tried for murder, but acquitted. 1t may be
that Folsom has among her citizens some
one who has mania for murder.
A CASE OF BuRGLARY.-Some time dur
ing the night of Thursday thief entered
the Russ House Hotel. on ] street, between
Tenth and Eleventh. He, thinking, no
doubt, the proprietor had more money
than anyone else, tackled that gentleman's
room first, and stole from his pockets ten
one-cent pieces. He next visited the room
occupied by two printers and Jared better,
finding some five or six dollars in the
pants pocket of one of them. He seems
to have been stricken with remorse for he
left upon their door-sill, all laid out in reg
ular order, the ten one-cent pieces stolen
from the proprietor's room. He seems not
to have bothered any other rooms in the
house and upon inquiry yesterday It was
ascertained that the two rooms robbed
were the only ones left unlocked in the
house. The moral is plain lock your
doors when you retire.
SUR FOR DAMAGES. - Mrs. Elizabeth
I ~ I'LL
and W. A. Anderson, has commenced suit
in the Superior Court against E. NJ. Leitch
for $i0,4 damages. She sets forth that
on the oath of last June n. Holmes, who
was driving one of Leitch's trucks and
was one of his employees, invited number
of little children to ride on the vehicle.
Among the number was her son Oliver,
between 6 and years of age. Through the
Carelessness, as she alleges, of the driver,
the child fell from the truck and one of the
wheels ran over him, fracturing and dislo-
eating one of his hips, in consequence of
which he is said to be permanently disa-
bled. She lays damages for the loss of his
services as he grows up at $4,000, and the
expenses of his illness are figured at $464.
POLICE CoURr.-In the Police Court yes
terday Ed. Laken, charged with the petit
larceny of S., by working the change
racket was adiudged guilty, and will be
sentenced to- day ......Sentence in the cases
of All Sam and All Gee, convicted recently
of conducting a lottery, was continued
until this morning. cases of Henry
Wittpen and i. Camenzind, charged with
disturbing the peace, were set for the 18th
...Ah Sam was tried for petit larceny in
stealing ten dozen eggs, found guilty and
will receive judgment at to-day's session.
WANTED IN TULARE.-Constable Samuel
Kern, OF Tulare City, formerly a railroad
conductor here, came to Sacramento yester-
day, looking for JackMoran, who is wanted
in TulaTe on q charge of misdemeanor and
one or two other offenses. Chief Jackson
took him in his buggy to the county JAN 10
see prisoner there, and when they were
returning the constable spied Moran at
Fifth and X streets, and his arrest followed.
PRIsoSERs EN- RouTE.-Sheriff A. c. Nc.
Leod, of San Luis 0bispo county, arrived
here yesterday with three prisoners, whom
he was conveying to the State Prison at
Folsom One was Melvin COngdon, SEN
fenced TO % years imprisonment for MUIR
der in the second degree; and the others
Stephen Moody and William Pepper, who
are to serve three years each for arson in
the second degree.
ASK for the white family blankets, s. a
pair. Hale Bros.
LARGEST variety of dress goods in the
city at Hale Bros.
GRAY blankets, full size 81 % a pair.
Hale Bros.
ANOTHER lot black dress goods at Hale
Bros.