Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-03-26
Stolen Property PARTLY Recovered

VII ibW year eve luB IbSiQButb VI
Mrs. Lille French, on Peek s sddi.
ton, was entered by burglar, while
all the occupants were attending the
masquerade ball given by the Native
Daughters, and sum of money. es-
timated at about $3.50 stolen. Mr..
Hicks, who was occupying portion
of the house, on returning home
touud Che door open, aud reported
That ne saw n man in the act of beat
ing hasty retreat from the premises.
lie said he fired a shot at the intru-
der, Investigation revealed that the
robher had turned every thing up
side down in his search for the money
and sum Of SIPS WIS scattered about
the floor of the room were the coin
was kent in receptacle behind the
flour bins Various theories were cir
culated, but the suspicious were not
sufficient to warrant any decisive
stems.
Another phase of this somewhat
mysterious raid, was brought to light
early last week, which has upset
theories previously formed. 1t seems
that week ago last Sunday, Bayard
Holtz was passing by the French
place on horseback, he noticed some
thing in the grass only four feet from
the road. He thought it was a pad
lock; and he dismounted TO examine.
lt proved to be the missing buckskin
purse, and had SOS in it. 1t was some
thirty dollars short of the original
contents. johnny Love at once re-
oongized it as his purse, that bad
been stolen from the house. Ac-
cording TO reports the purse showed
evidences of having been exposed to
the weather for some time. Ii Is al.
most incredible that it should have
lain out there. close to a we'll travel
ed ro@d, for so many weeks without
having being discovered before. The
grass was not sufficiently high to con
ceal it. Mr.. Hicks, who according to
robber while in the act, lett jackson
a month ago.
The purse was given into the pos
session of the sheriff the same oven
ing that it was picked up. It con-
tanned 500, all in gold-one $40, three
$40 and three So pieces. 1t was
| "a loo 20,
parcel as possible, and being of a
browuish color might possibly have
escaped the notice of passers by Tor
considerable length of time. The
discovery tends to mystify rather than
clear up the robbery
| Charles j. Peters, the only sor of
Charles Peters, the pioneer of '49,
died at his residence near South
jackson, on Monday evening. after a
brief illness. On Saturday he was
around town, apparently as we'll as
usual, Sunday morning symptoms of
pneumonia developed, and Dr. Gall
was called to attend him. The disease
rapidly developed to fatal termina-
ton, the end coming at ten O'Clock
M onday night. lie was native of
California, and his entire life was
passed In jackson and vicinity. lie
leaves a wife and two children, son
and daughter, both between nine and
five years of age. Deceased was a
carpenter by trade. He was hard
drinker, and this habit had doub tless
undermined his constitution so that
be fell easily victim to the disease.
His family Is left in Strengthened cir
cumstances, der endent npon the kind
ness of neiGhbors and friends. The
remains were inferred on Thursday
in the family plot in the city ceme-
terry by the side of his mother, who
preceded him to the grave when he
was an infant.