Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01

her and she scared you. She seemed to be
frightened when she saw such homely
Celestial as you Oh, yes, she went away
next day"
"Him belly bad woman belly bad
woman"
"What's that? What do you know about
that woman ?" asked the proprietor, and
several men who were playing pedro be-
came so interested that they forgot whose
turn it was to deal.
'Him woman kille one man. You
sable? Me see him kille one man. You
sable him catchem knife" And the Chi
naman struck himself on the breast indi-
eating a stab.
The proprietor began to think the Chi
naman crazy, and the pedro game broke
up and all hands gathered around the ex-
cited Celestial, who was vigorously piled
with questions. His story, Invested of its
F'pigeon" English, in substance was as fol-
lows:
Three years ago, in the month of No
yember. he was conducting butcher sho p
and accidentally cut his arm. On the hill
sides grow what is called the Indian onion,
which the Chinese prize highly for its
medicinal properties. They grind it up in
mortar and prepare salve which has
remarkable healing qualities. One after
noon he was out in quest of these roots and
was sitting in a little clump Of bushes on
the steep side hill of canyon which emp
ties into the American, when his atten-
ton was attracted by voices.
Peering through the brush he saw
man and woman approaching. They sat
down, apparently to rest, on log not
twenty feet from him. A few moments
later he heard angry tones, and looking
up saw the women deliberately stab the
man to the heart, and the latter fell
ever TIE log apparently lifeless.
The Chinaman jumped up frightened,
and started to run. In order to get out of
tie canyon, he must pass within three feet
of the woman. The latter saw him as he
arose in the bushes, and covering him
with pistol made him come to her. She
then told him if he ever told anyone of
the murder she would appear against him,
accuse him of the crime, and he being
Chinaman, her evidence would be taken
in preference to his, and he would be
hanged. Then, giving him twenty-dol-
lar piece, she bid him 60 about his bus
mess, and told him never, if he valued his
life, to return to that spot again.
He had done as he had been bid, and
had never mentioned the murder even to
his own countrymen.
When the Chinaman's story had been
told, the entire crowd were in feverish
state of excitement. The proprietor re-
marked that the woman's face had famil
lar look.
'The Chinaman has given you date"
remarked a bystander; "look at your reg
lister"
After some little time the old register Of
1886 was dug up, and as November 2lst
was turned to, the proprietor read, "John
Dalton and wife, Buffalo. Arrived on
the DIST; left on the 25th."
''Thats it, rs sure as You are born. |
recollect them well, now. Strange that l
did not recognize her the day she was
here, but then as ! remember she was very
retired and reticent."
Frank Metcalf and Henry Burns sug-
gested that they Immediately proceed to
Investigate, and all hands said, "Yesl let's
go out and dig this thing up"
After considerable persuasion, accom-
panied with threats, the Chinaman agreed
to lead them to the scene of the tragedy,
which is about half a mile east from Col
fax in secluded spot.
Near the log on which the man sat,
when the ChiRaman says he received his
death wound, was a large fiat stone, which
showed that it had been recently moved.
One of the men caught hold of it and