Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-19
ALONG OUR WESTERN SHORE.
An Idaho Sheriff Captures a Noted
Indian Murderer.
MURDER OF FL0SSIE LORD.
Shot Down on the Doorstep of Her
Home Near Grass Valley by
an Unknown Party.
IsPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-USIoN.l
IsPEcIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNIox.I
FL0SSIE LORD.

Mysterious Murder of "A Young Lady
Near Grass Valley.
GRASS VALLEY, June 1Sth.-Last evening.
between 6 and o'clock, the dead, body of
Flossie Lord, daughter of James H. Lord,
we'll known marble cutter, was found on
the porch of her fathers house, two miles
west of Grass Valley.
Flossie was fully dressed, having lust re-
turned to her home from town. She met
death on the portico before she had gone
into the house. Her feet were over the
portico. She lay ON her stomach, with her
face turned toward the door of her house,
the right side of her face being next the
floor
At the hour named John Collins, young
man of this neighborhood, rode over to
the house for the purpose of getting Kitto,
who sworks on the Lord place, TO go to
Collins place to cut hay. AS Collins got
off his horse Richard Davis, young man
aged is years and living near the Lord
place, arrived for the purpose of getting
cherries. The two stopped a while and
talked, and young Davis went in the ward.
where he saw Flossie lying down. He saw
something was the matter, for the flies
buzzed around the girls head. The two
young men did not touch the girl, but ran
to the field, where Fred Lord, Flossie's
brother, was at work. Fred ran to the
house, picked up his sister and carried her
into the house. 1t was discovered that she
had been shot through the head with a
pistol, the ball entering the right temple a
little above and back of the right eve, and
ranging almost straight across, lodging un-
der the skin OF the left temple
She was dead when first seen, and the
wound was probably given not MANY mo-
ments before the arrival of the young men
named.
The authorities were notified, and acting
Coroner Paynter went to the scene. A iurv
was impanelled, which viewed the remains.
DIR. Jamison made an examination of the
wound last night. a number of the friends
remained at the house.
This morning they looked around and
made what may be important discoveries.
The pistol with which it was at first SUD-
posed Flossie Lord was shot was found
near her body. Two of the five chambers
were empty. The pistol is one of 80 cali
Der, and belongs to FREQ Lord, the brother
of the girl.
She has been in the habit of using the
pistol to fire at birds in the trees, hence it
was at first supposed that she had been
shooting at birds, and by some mischance
had stumbled while about to fire, and her
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The theory of deliberate suicide was also
mentioned. There were no powder marks
on the skin near the wound which should
have been the case had the pistol been fred
by her own hand and with suicidal intent.
This morning the people at the house
found other bullet marks. One of these
was in the wall of the house and it was six
feet and two inches above the floor, much
above Flossie's hight
hitto's wagon stood in front of the
house and outside of the yard at distance
OF about tifty-tive feet from where the BODY
was found. A bullet hole was found in
the plank OF the wagon bed, and the bullet
bad gone through the plank Here were
three bullets fired and only two empty
chambers found in the pistol.
The bullet in the wall of the house and
the one in the wagon bed may have been
fired at Flossie, as was the one found in
her head.
1t is said that the girls life has been
threatened, and that very lately a man
has been trying to get her to 90 to San
Francisco, where she has a sister residing,
and from which city Flossie was recently
brought to get her away from the influence
of that sister. This man, it is said, had
told her that he would take her back there
or kill her.
IL IS asserted that she saw this man ten
days ago. BE then told her that in ten
days he would see her again and that she
must then go with him. The name of this
man is not given for obvious reasons. The
man in question has not been seen here or
IN the neighborhood of the tragedy for two
weeks. Only one rough-looking fellow
was seen in the neighborhood yesterday,
but no suspicion is entertained as to him.
Emily Florence Lord is the full name of
the deceased and about 10 years and 10
months of age. Her father and brother re-
SIDE here. A sister, Kate, is married and
lives in Arizona. Nettie. a sister, is in San
Francisco, and another sister, Gertie, is in
the East. The funeral will take place to-
morrow afternoon. The Coroner's iurv
returned verdict that deceased was a ma
tive of Haverhill, Mass, and came to her
death by pistol wound, and that the pistol
was held in the hand of a person or per-