The record-union., 1891-12-12
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
How a Folsom Lawyer Won His Sian
der Suit.
a Soldier From Camp Union Shot by
a Constable-Execution of Louis
KahI for Murder.

kahl Tor Murder.
a SANDER case was tried in the District
Court in December, 1861, which calls up
the names of a considerable number of
old-timers. j. Muller, Folsom lawyer,
sued James a. Duffy, another sprig OF
the law, for $1,000 damages for SANDER.
IN suit instituted by o. c. Lewis
against j. Clarken, Duffy and Ellison be-
came sureties on the appeal bond. Lewis
subsequently sued them for the recovery
of the amount of his Judgment
Andrew Black and John Ryan became
bondsmen IN this suit, and Muller's
method of examining them as to their
financial ability gave offense to Duffy,
who referred to him as pettifogger, and
also applied other epiUhets; hence the
damage suit. The case was conducted by
Joseph w. Winans for the plaintiff, and
James w. Coffroth and Frank Hereford
appeared for Duffy.
Among the witnesses examined were
Thomas X. Munk, Jerome Madden, An
drew Davis, John Ryan, Andrew Black,
a. NJ. Selden, L. a. Talbert, 2. w. 5.
1iayle, w. ii. Weeks, George Cadwalader,
humphrey Griffith, r. +. Brown, j. H.
tiass, Nj. NJ. Estee, B. c. Whiting, w.
deeks, j. c. Barr, @. Il. Moreto, George
Z. Moore Robert Robinson, n. Greene
Curtis, 7. ]. Cleavcs. Samuel Cross and
others
The testimony went to show that the
plaintiff had but little reputation as a
lawyer. The jury, however, gave him
judgment for one dollar, but assessed all
the costs To the plaintiff, amounting to
quite a round sum.
.....Judge Hoffman had Just rendered
4 decision in the Leidesdorff grant case,
ordering a new survey of the grant, with
directions to exclude from it the town OF
Folsom, in this county. The decision
seriously affected the property interests
Of that town.
Early in 1856 the lots Of the town were
sold at auction in this city by authority
Of the executors of the estate of j. l.. Fol
som. At that sale the Leidesdorf title,
together with the Meredith possessory
little, passed to the purchaser.
The Natoma Ditch Company had sew
oral years before purchased from the Fol-
som executors tract of nine thousand
acres of the grant, extending down the
liver to Alder Creek For this land S4
an acre, or $50, coo, was paid The greater
part OF this land was, by Judge Hoffman's
decision, stricken from the grant.
The will Of the British Earl of
Pembroke was being generally pub
lshed. 1t contained the following unique
provisions: "Item-I give all my deer to
the Earl Of Salisbury, who I know, will
preserve them, because he denied the
King q buck out of one of his own parks.
item ! give nothing to Lord Say, which
legacy / give him because l know he will
bestow it on the poor Item-To Tom
May I give five shillings. I intended
him more, but whoever has seen his His
tory Of the Parliament knows that five
ShIlHngS is too much. lten-I give
Lieutenant-G General Cromwell one word
Of mine, because, hitherto, he never kept
his own. Item-I give up the ghost"
........ Charles Wheatley was PLAYING at
the Metropolitan Theater here in his
great character of Salem Scudder. in
the "Octoroon.' Charles Pope, another
old favorite, personated Pete, the
Garky; Mrs. Sanders took the character
of Dora Sunnyside, while Virginia
buchanan ably filled the role of Zoe.
the octoroOn slave.
The other characters were by "old
man" Anderson, Clifton, Frank Mayo !
Ich hean Buchanan, Mrs. Sheppard and
other well-known men and women, then
prominent in theatrical circles
Louis Kahl, who murdered a
woman named Katrina Gerken at Second
and l. streets, was hanged in the jailyard
on the 10Th of November, 1861. He made
q long speech on the galIows, insisting
C.
that the woman's watch, which had been
found in his possession, was given to him
by one Jimmy From Town. who COM
mitted the deed. Sheriff Bugbey, War
den Len. Harris, Deputies Rice, Lansing
and Lindsay conducted the execution.
KahPs last words were: Tell Captain
Deal l did not weaken"
.........Sacramento made good war rec
ord. During the first six months of hos
hn hoH i
eral companies Of soldiers, one of which.
Captain De Merritts Sacramento Rang
ors, was acknowledged to be the finest
company raised in the State She had
also subscribed to the national loan three
times as much money as San Francisco
The CAL said: ''San Francisco ought to
blush at her record when compared with
that Of Sacramento"
.. On the 18th of November. 1851.
Mason and Slidell, the emissaries of the
Southern Confederacy, who were to 90 to
Europe and endeavor to secure recogni-
ton by the Powers there of the Jeff
DAVIS Government, Were captured on
board an English steamer, in the channel
ofthe Bahamas, as she was about To leave
for Liverpool. This capture was hard
blow to the Southern cause, and created
= fsreat excitement not only i'll the North
and South, but also in Europe.
Union came to the city one night to at
tend the theater, on invitation of Mexican
buchanan, to see that old-6me ranter
play Richelieu. For some reason the
soldiers felt ugly after the performance,
:ad got into q row on X street, which
ended in one Jeremiah Sinclair being
shot and killed by Constable J. W. Cart
ter.
......... Under the heading, New Brick"
appeared the following item in the UNION:
W. a. Gett is building a one-story brick
building on l street, adjoining the Capt.
5ol. The Supervisors have authorized
him to cut . doorway through the wall /
between his establishment and the Capi-
tol." Evidently the gentleman was bound
10 "getn there.
Mexico was overrun BIZ = very
lad set OF highwaymen in those DAYS.
one of their tricks was. besides robbinr
the passengers of stage-coaches, to strip
them Of all clothing. They spared neither
sex, and it was not an uncommon thine
Tor stage to roll upto a station, or into a
village, with a load of naked men and
women.
How easily some of our public
men are forgotten. Who can give, from
memory, the name of the man who sue
Ceeded Col. Edward ID. Baker in the SEN
ate Of the United States? 1t was Benia-
min Stark. Everybody knows who Ba-
ller was and how he died, but the man
who took his place was long since for
gotten.
........On the 10th of November. 1851,
James Brooks was shot and killed by
adam Murray, near Antelope. Thomas
horny itllTiipatpH in 10