The herald., 1896-07-07
RIVERSIDE
Murderers on Trial or Ready for Sentenc
Notes


Notes
RIVERSIDE, July 6-The second tri-
al of Charles Marshall. the man who
shot Frank Hamilton and Albert Lar
sen in a street fight at San Jacinto in
April, 1885, was begun in the superior
court of this county today. Marshall
was once tried and convicted of the
murder of Frank Hamilton and SEN
fenced to be hanged last August. An
appeal was taken and the supreme court
granted him a new trial because of err
rors in the courts charge to the jury.
Marshall, who is well known in this
section, CO. into dispute with Hamil-
ton, and in the shooting which followed
Hamilton, as well as bystander named
Larsen. was killed, while Marshall had
an arm broken by bullet from Hamil-
toms pistol. The entire day was con-
sumed in an effort to secure jury, and
only five jurors were chosen, owing to
the fact that knowledge of the affray
Is so widespread.
The remittitur in the case of John and
Caesar Cummings, convicted murderers
of L. c. Naramore, who were refused
| a new trial by the supreme court, was
received here today by the sheriff from
the clerk of the supreme court The
Cummings boys were convicted of Nara
more's murder last September, and they
were sentenced to be hanged December
3, 1895. An appeal was taken in their
case, and after several months delay
the supreme court dismissed the appeal.
They will be brought back here to be
resentenced.
Horace, the young son of ]. j. Zea-
kle, was the victim of an accident on
| ,~<1 <Lok lerl,k
| more serious than 1t did, He was among
the crowd Of boys to whom firecrackers
| were being distributed A bunch went
under horse, and Horace stopped down
| to get 1t, when some one pushed him.
| This frightened the horse and caused it
to jump forward suddenly. The wheel
Of the wagon struck the boys head,
| cutting a severe cash and rendering
| him unconscious. Bystanders drew the
boy from under the wagon and DR.. Ruby
| soon restored him to consciousness, and
| within an hour Horace was down town
to witness the balance of the sports.
EARLY on the morning Of the Fourth
] and just after the sunrise salute had
| been fired from the Rubidoux, the ar
| tillery Of heaven let loose, as If in MEM
ory of the day, and for a short time it
was question whether or not we were
| going to have a downpour But the
| rain was confined to the hills and the
| eastern portion Of the county. In the
! San Jacinto section there was quite
| fine shower. and at Box Springs the dust
| was nicely laid, the boulevard being.
| sprinkled for the occasion.
j. B. Sebrell, with an eye to business
and taste for the unique and beauti-
full, had two lovely little girls, ,gaily
dressed, distributing advertisements
upon the streets during last Saturday.
On invitation, George w. Cobb of Riv-
erside went to Redland Saturday and
played shortstop in the Redlands base
ball nine in a game with the Francis
Wilson's of Los Angeles. The result
of the game was 9 to 8 in favor of Red
lands. Twenty-Five hundred people wit
messed the game at 25 cents each.
w. T. Curtis and family leave for
Long Beach tomorrow,to be absent about
a month.
So quiet and peaceable were the 10, 900
or more people in Riverside Saturday
that but one arrest was made. ]. H.
O'Brien became so hilarious that he pro-
posed to settle an account with another
fellow la Corbett. Constable Burrell
knocked him out in the first round, how
ever, and lugged him to the Jail to sober
up. He was ober by Sunday morning.
when he was set at liberty.
The Master Mason's degree will be
conferred at Masonic temple tomorrow
evening, and a banquet will follow.
E. e. Hamilton of Corona is in the
city today. He was drawn as one of the
venipa in the Marshall case