Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-07-31
PACIFIC COAST.
RUMORED DANGER OF An APACHE
UPRISING In ARIZONA.
The Murder of Pratt in Sierra
County-The Meadow, Lake
Mines Looking Up.
t,aEcr.L DISPATCHES TO rHn RaoonD-ua1oa.l
THE PRATT MURDER.
Perry Pratt Undoubtedly Killed For His
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Perry Pratt Undoubtedly Killed For His
Money.
BONNEVILLE, July 30th.-The details of
the murder of Perry H. Pratt last Friday,
| a drummer for Rosenthal FEEDER & Co., of
| San Francisco, at Niger Tent, on the
DoTnieville road, so far as they are known,
have finally been received here. Pratt was
| travelling in a buggy alone, and at Bangor
| met friend with whom he took a glass of
soda. While they were chatting together
Pratt ratified some money in his pocket,
and his friend remarked the fact that he
was not broke. Pratt laughed and said he
had little left, at the same time display
ing several $20-p pieces. There were several
strangers in the saloon at the time, and it
| is supposed that the murdered man was
followed by one or more of the gang from
| that place or from Camptonville, where he
| was known to have collected bill for his
| firm. He left Bangor behind the stage,
| and kept up with it until near Niger Tent,
where he dropped out of sight of the
! driver, with whom he had been convers-
, i,g.
DISCOVERY OF THE CRIME.
A Chinaman who drove along the road,
not long afterward, found the team stand
I ing across the highway and took it to one
side and tied the horses to tree. Later he
met couple of Indians, to whom he re-
lated the incident. They went to the
buggy, and finding the seat, bottom and
! dashboard splashed with fresh blood, con-
| cluded that crime had been committed,
and began searching for the victim. They
! found no trace of Pratt in the vicinity and
did not discover his body until they had
searched the brush on either side of the
| road for about mile They then came
to the place where the murder had been
committed, and saw the marks in the dust
where he had fallen from the buggy.
THE BLOODY WORK.
The murderers had dragged the body a
| long distance through the dust of the road
and cunningly stepped so that their tracks
were entirely obliterated, thus leaving no
| clue to their identity. The body had been
| taken into the thick brush and carelessly
thrown down after having been despoiled
| OF watch and chain and finger ring and
some small change in silver. In their
haste the assassins failed to find small
purse in the fob pocket of the dead man,
containing sos in gold.
The killing was done with a rifle. and it
is evident that the murderer or murderers
fired from the brush on the hillside above
the road as Pratt approached them, as the
bullet struck him on the left side os the
neck, severing the jugular vein and pass
ing out at the back below the right shoul-
der.
Up TO the present time the Sheriff and
his deputies have labored in vain to find a
clue that would lead 10 the detection of the
perpetrators of the bloody deed.
PETITION FOR A REWARD.
CHICO, July 30th.-The friends of Perry
II. Pratt, who was murdered ON the Down
ieville road last Friday, do not have much
confidence in the ability of the Sierra
county officers to apprehend his murderers,
and will petition Governor Waterman to
offer a suitable reward for their arrest and
conviction.