The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

away" said Crow. "Thatl Is the last we
saw of him.
an go over" said Clark. 'Jack may
only be wounded"
'tOh, there's no use; he's dead" said
Grow.
The next day Constable Cummings. in
company with Clark, whom he had been
out to summon as witness in another
case, rode over the trail and came upon the
body of Littlefield hanging in the woods,
his hat boots and spurs on. Van Horn
and Crow were standing guard. Clark and
spection of the neighborhood, when Van
Horn interfered. 1--WE don't want no
trailing here said the Constable.
All this is as told by Clark and Cum
mings. The latter says there were signs
of two horses having stood at the cross
ing of the trail["not more than three,
anyhow" A whitfield stick lay there as
witness to where the men had waited.
When the news of what had befallen
Littlefeld reached young Wilburn and
Wathen, they burst into tears, and Will
burn cried out: If this was done for the
shooting of Vinton, they have got the
wrong man, for Jack was with me all that
day-never out of my sight-and we were
miles away"
Now came Justice Atkinson of Trinity
County, with jury OF nine men, and
held what purported to be an inquest, the
| verdict rendered being this:
slack Littlefeld was shot and put to death
on this date"
| That is all. There is no date to the doc
| ument nor are the names of the Jurors
signed. The jury was made up of four of
the Van Horn brothers, Tom Gregory,
| George Kendrick, Sam Lance, Simmons
| and Grow. It is asserted that the only
man on the jury who was not an avowed
/ enemy of Litulefield was Kendrick.
This man says that he suggested thew
make box for the body. To this, he
says, Gregory replied:
NO; d him. Well bury him right
here Wen have no funeral nonsense. 1
could much easier say God d him than
God bless him"
Then, scraping the CONCEALED blood from
his face, he pointed to the scars from his
own knife-wounds.
'sDo YOU see those?' he said. 81 did
that-and be carried them to his grave
Then they dug shallow hole two feet
deep and placed the body in IT,
The following evening four Of the seven
men who left Hayden's house to arrest Lit
| tlefeld, and some of whom had served on
| this impromptu jury-Greggory, Lacock,
Crow and Simmons-all carrying their
Wmchesters, rode to Simmons house in
Round Valley. The house is within 400
yards of that OF Yes Palmer and within 2L
miles of Covelo. They remained there
over night.
Next morning, still carrying their Win
chesters, three of them, Crow, Simmons
and Gregory, rode into Covelo. Frank
Youree's saloon there is rendezvous of
Indians and vaqueros. Youree is a bust
ness partner of Buck Lacock, who had re-
manned at Simmons house. The three
rode to the saloon and Crow entered, the
Others remaining upon their horses at the
door, Crow ordered whisky. When the
liquor was handed to him he drew his re-
volver and raised it with the glass and
turned his back TO the bar, facing the
crowd as he tossed it off. Some one asked
him what he meant by that.
Il thought perhaps some of you fellows
might think you wanted me-" he said.
He carried some whisky to Simmons and
Gregory at the door and they rode away.
Youree sent word to Lacock to come in as
he wanted to see him, but Lacock refused
to do so. 1t was the first time in his life
they say that Lacock ever came so near
town without entering.
Yes Palmer was at his house that night
this party of four stopped at simmons
His wife was sick, and he was attending
her. He had heard the day before of the
| lvnching of Littlehed, and had bought a
suit of clothes and dispatched party OF
friends to the place to see that was
| properly buried. They were Louis Bluiah
Jim Kelly and Lem Montague They left
Covelo at midnight. and reached the camp
of young Jim Wilburn at Summit Valley
: before daylight. Wilburn's house was
found deserted, for terrorized he had taker
his wife and children and gone to anotbe
camp several miles away. The men bull
fire and rested their horses for two hours
, While there the elder Jim Wllburn, tn,
old lion of the mountains, came down The
trial. While he was half mile away they
heard his cry intended for the ears of hi
son. Not knowing what to make of i
!, they at first got out of the light of the fire
. and waited. When at last one of the part,
recognized old Wilburn's voice anC
answered, the latter'S cry. ceased as he il
his turn did not know what to make @
the strange voice from his sons cabin. 4
, few minutes later he rode into the ligh