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SULLIVAN-", "height": "3514", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA\\nCONSPIRACY\\nWITH\\nNEW YORK EPISODES\\nI BY\\nP. M. SULLIVAN\\nA Book ofFacts Not Fiction\\nP. M. SULLIVAN\\nAuthor and Publisher\\nn. tona wanda, n. y.", "height": "3514", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "266\\na*V\\nLibrary of Qongrea*\\nTwo Copies Received\\nJUL 30 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nAUG 1 1900\\nCopyrighted and all Rights Reserved by\\nP. M. SULLIVAN,\\n1900.\\n86875", "height": "3514", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Truth crushed to earth will rise again,\\nThe eternal years of God are hers,\\nWhile error, writhing in her chains,\\nWill die among her worshippers.\\nNAS MUCH as the following pages will involve many\\nj of the greatest wealth, political and social standing\\n?f and show them to be guilty, in a greater or less\\ndegree of various crimes and questionable practices,\\nand disclose their true identity, it is deemed to be only\\nfair and proper that the author and victim under such\\ncircumstances should be explicitily pointed out to the\\nreader. So we begin by saying the author and victim is\\none and the same person, who was born away back in\\nthe forties, in a log house, on the pine -clad hills of\\nPultney, Steuben County, N. Y.\\nHis struggles for an education, if told in detail, would\\nonly show a repetition of many similar instances\\nalready in public print, so suffice it to say, that up to\\nsixteen years of age he could scarcely read or write and\\nafter this time, all of his energies were used in trying to\\nobtain the rudiments, at least, of an English education.;\\nand he finally succeeded to such an extent that he\\nbecame able to teach a country district school, and\\nafterwards was admitted to the bar of the State at\\nRochester, N. Y. on June 10, 1869.\\nHe had now reached the zenith of his youthful\\naspirations, and settled down to the practice of his\\nprofession at Prattsburgh, N. Y., where he remained\\ncontented until frenzied with the gold fever of the\\nPacific slope, then he went West and in a short time is\\nfound delving for gold in the wilds of Idaho Territory,", "height": "3514", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwhere he resided for a few years enjoying and suffering\\nthe ups and downs necessarily incident to a life in the\\nwild and woolly West. In 1879 he became a resident\\nof Folson, California, where he took up the practice of\\nhis profession as his sole business and has ever since\\nlabored therein, now residing at the city of North\\nTonawanda, N. Y.\\nThis village of Folson is situate on the right bank 1 of\\nthe American river, twenty miles below Coloma, the\\nplace where gold was first discovered in California on\\nFebruary 19, 1848, by J. W. Marshall, whom the State\\nlet die in abject poverty. The population of Folson is\\nnow about six hundred white people, while in the days\\nof its prosperous mining condition it had 10,000 popu-\\nlation. Then, it was prolific for its gold out-put; now,\\nit is prolific for its murder out-put, eleven such cases\\nhaving occurred there while the victim lived there,\\nbeing about four years. One of these homocides was\\nthat of Mrs. Frank Lamblet, alleged and generally\\nbelieved to have been murdered by her husband with a\\nrazor, he being a barber, though he was acquitted on a\\ntrial for the same. At the time that Mr. Lamblet was\\naccused of this crime he had $6,000 cash and ex-Sheriff\\nB. M. Bugby acted as his good man Friday. After he\\nwas acquitted, the victim here met him at Sacramento\\nCity in a very dilapidated condition and on request\\nbought him something to eat, Mr. Lamblet saying that\\nBugby and the lawyers had taken all of his money.\\nMr. Bugby was a very resourceful ma a in getting\\nmoney. He obtained several thousand dollars in insur-\\nance money on some barrels destroyed by fire alleged to\\nbe filled with wine, while others claimed they were only\\nfilled with water also several more thousand insurance\\nmoney on a house destroyed by fire. This of course", "height": "3552", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 5\\nwas after all other business resources had failed him.\\nHe had a rival in this insurance money business, in\\nthe person of James S. Meredith, who in his financial\\nexperience had profited by a large fire insurance policy.\\nAnd they two being close friends for years had\\nanother equally close friend in the person of Deputy-\\nSheriff John McComber, all residing at Folson. But\\nwhat of these ever occurring and ordinary facts We\\nwill tell you. Standing alone and unconnected with\\nanything else they would not be of sufficient importance\\nto write, but when these men are connected with one. of\\nthe greatest conspiracies both in point of numbers and\\nmoney, to ruin and murder a single individual, to hide\\nthe villainy of a few wealthy people, then these three\\nmen are of much importance, and it is well to know\\nsomething about them. There were quite a number of\\nothers residing at this place who took a hand in this\\ngeneral round-up of ruin, such as attorney W. C.\\nCrossette, Constable Amasa Mars, and others whom we\\nexpect to weave in the woof of this criminal fabric as\\nthe same progresses.\\nIt was now June, 1884, when the victim began to feel\\nthe necessity for a larger field for his practice, and after\\ncanvassing places and prospects concluded that the\\ncity of Woodland, in Yolo County, Cal. afforded the\\ngreatest opportunities and most favorable conditions of\\nany place he could find, so he moved over to Woodland\\nabout sixty miles from Folson. It is a most beautiful\\nand gorgeous city, situate on the left bank of the\\nSacramento river, midway between the rock-ribbed\\nSierras on the east and where the majestic Pacific\\nkisses the golden sands on the west. There about even\\ndistance upon an air line between the city of Los Angeles\\non the south, where the rose blossoms in December", "height": "3552", "width": "2247", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nand the towering heights of Mt. Shasta on the north,\\nwhere the snow never melts, there stands this city,\\nwhere in 1886 the largest and vilest conspiracy was\\nformed against a single individual, that ever took place\\nin the United States. There, were hatched and matured\\nthe most wicked crimes against the laws of God and\\nman that educated demons and millionaire backers\\ncould originate and support.\\nThe streets of this beautiful place were all planned and\\nconstructed at right angles, and they are kept in the\\nfinest condition, with broad sidewalks of concrete on\\nthe main thoroughfares, and trees and shrubbery in the\\nyards, it certainly presents a lively and cheering appear-\\nance and imbues the visitor with the most favorable and\\npleasing impressions. Its court house is built in a\\nnicely laid out plaza, bedecked with many and varied\\nspecies of trees and floral shrubbery with appropriate\\nwalks neatly graveled, all of which make a desirable\\nplace for a midnight stroll in summer, and especially\\nso for those whose deeds are the same color as the\\nnight. This little city of about four thousand people is\\nthe wealthiest place of its size in the United States,\\nit is also the wickedest place that is, there are not so\\ngreat a number of wicked people there, but, that the\\nreal criminals of the place are so wealthy that the power\\nof one such for evil would equal that of a hundred poor\\ncrooks. Their wealth allays suspicion and aids them in\\nvarious ways to covertly carry out their evil acts. This\\nplace contains the elements of the highest and best\\ncivilization: banks, churches, colleges, schools, public\\nhalls, and theaters, besides several good hotels. It is\\nset in the very heart of the horticultural and agricultural\\npart of Sacramento Valley. Grapes, oranges, and figs", "height": "3552", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 7\\ngrow in luscious abundance; also, all the cereals are\\nproduced there.\\nAt this delectable and God- given spot, the victim first\\nTHE MODERN JEZEBEL.\\nmet the modern Jezebel. She was there in full bloom,\\nliving in a suite of rooms at the Craft- hotel, and mas-\\nquerading as a bereft widow, under the name of Mrs-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nO Neil, andlf she had been one-half as good as her photo-\\ngraph shows her, this little book would never have been\\nwritten. Her maiden name was Cordelia A. Gilbert,\\nand her birth-place Kentucky, though her childhood\\ndays were spent with her parents on the left bank of the\\nriver opposite Sacramento City, California. She and\\nthe victim became acquainted in July at this Craft\\nHotel, and being along toward middle life, the ordinary\\nand usual sentimental simperings incident to coming\\nnuptial occasions were not indulged in, but on the con-\\ntrary in a short space of time, and in about the way\\nboys trade jack-knives out of sight and out of seein\\nthey pooled their issues and by due form of law under\\na written contract they became husband and wife, at\\nleast the victim supposed himself to be wrapped in such\\nentrancing relations. But not so, for the former Mrs.\\n0 Neil was already somewhere on the domestic carpet,\\nwhich operated as a kind of a conjugal interrregnum to\\ntheir legal married relations. Though this fact was not\\nsupposed to be ever found out by the victim, and was\\nnot known to him for sometime thereafter, until\\nthe immoral and criminal ball of her life began to un-\\nwind.\\nUp to this time, the victim had taken some\\ninterest in State politics and had been a delegate from\\nSacramento County to the last three State Conventions,\\nnotably the one held at San Jose in 1882 when General\\nGeorge Stoneman was nominated for governor over\\nSenator Clay W. Taylor from Shasta County. At this\\nconvention the victim had worked and voted for the\\nSenator s nomination until his defeat on the seventeenth\\nballot and as a political recompense he, in time, assisted\\nin electing our victim Enrolling Clerk of the Senate in\\n1884, shortly after that eventful epoch of his life, which", "height": "3552", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 9\\nis the initial point around which the almost incredible\\ntale here told revolves.\\nIt is now May, 1885; the Legislature has adjourned,\\nand its Enrolling Clerk returned to the practice of his\\nprofession at Woodland; but in the meantime he had\\nlearned many little things about his variegated spouse\\nsuch as, that her first real escapade was an elopement\\nand marriage when she was fourteen years old, with\\nBud Davis of Iowa, by whom she had three living girls\\nElla, a noted vocalist married to Dr. J. H. Lukens of\\nSan Deigo, Cal., Geneva, once divorced and twice\\nmarried at eighteen Fannie, twice married and twice\\ndivorced at eighteen, her last marriage being to a worthy\\ngentleman, Harry Hoffman, son of Clara Hoffman of\\nKansas City, Mrs. Hoffman being Secretary of the W.\\nC. T. U., of the United States. We present the photo\\nof Fannie, which shows her to have a pretty and inter-\\nesting face, the death knell of so many of the land.\\nThe foregoing is a fair sample of the highly perfumed\\nand esthetic knowledge a man usually finds out by catch-\\ning a dashing young widow on the fly, and of course\\nit is evident, that it has a righteous and direct tendency\\nto still the perturbed waters of his domestic sea.\\nAt this time Geneva and her second husband appear,\\nat Jezebel s domestic Waterloo, and remain long enough\\nto get a chance to steal forty or fifty dollars and then\\nskip to El Paso, Texas, from whose bourne the second\\nhusband never returned; and just after this little\\nepisode of Geneva and pal, Fannie bobs into appearance\\nfrom Kansas City, Kansas, where she had recently been\\ndivorced from her first husband, Bert Porter; and, like\\nGeneva, remained long enough to duplicate her acts, and\\nthen returned to Kansas City and soon married Harry\\nHoffman.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10\\nA CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nIn less than a year she again appeared as the di-\\nvorced wife of Mr. Harry Hoffman, A. R. French,\\nPresident of the Board of Trade there, being one of her\\nDOUBLE-DIVORCED FANNIE.\\nlovers. The battle-ground of Jezebel s Waterloo was\\nnow getting quite hot, and the doubly divorced Fan not\\nfinding the atmosphere congenial to her aching heart", "height": "3552", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 11\\nand injured honor soon sought the realms of a more\\nsympathetic climate with her sister Geneva at El Paso,\\nfrom whence she never returned to Woodland.\\nWithin the time above mentioned in November, 1885,\\nJezebel s mother came to live with her, and from\\nthe day of her arrival until the day of her departure,\\nJuly 3, 1886, her eyes and those of the victim never\\ncame into square, open contact with each other, the\\nevasions being caused by her; and this was noticed on\\nthe first night of her arrival. At that time it was\\nattributed to the fact of their being strangers and per-\\nhaps natural timidity, but how far these reasons failed\\nmuch more serious and grave reasons being the cause-\\nThe fact of her being particeps crimines to a horrible\\ncrime against human life and her consciousness and\\nfear of detection were the true causes, as we will find\\nlater on. She was nearly sixty-eight years of age. Her\\nfeatures were sharp and angular, her eyes dark and\\ndeep-set, hid away under a heavy set of eye-brows w r ith\\na piercing shrill voice, having a kind of carnivorous\\ntone to it. She was only to be favored through fear.\\nThe house Avas very quickly and adroitly organized\\ninto a quasi bedlam. The foaming seas of discontent\\nand disruption were soon set in motion by her master\\nhand. Soon the billows began to break over the martial\\nship and it was about to go down forever. The storm\\ndemon was raging and nothing could stay her davastat-\\ning designs. And, as if it were to be so, Geneva appears\\non the scene to help the inevitable disruption along.\\nShe had come from El Paso, Texas, where she aban-\\ndoned her second husband. In a few days she suc-\\nceeded in borrowing some money on the old man s\\naccount, and as soon as this was found out by the victim s\\nbeing dunned for the money, she skipped the town", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nbetween the setting and the rising of the sun, but\\nbefore she departed this characteristic trio of females\\nheld a secret council and adopted a plan of action which\\nthey thought would best accomplish their evil deter-\\nminations. But the best laid plans of mice and men,\\nthey often gang aglee which the unfolding of the\\nfacts here will show was only too true for their good, in\\ntheir case.\\nJezebel s elopement marriage was celebrated at this\\ncity of Woodland, and it is quite a co incidence that\\nseveral years after, her tragical marriage should occur\\nat the same place. We will now leave this place and go\\nwith her to the place of her first habitation with Mr.\\nDavis, which was on a fruit ranch ten miles below\\nSacramento City on the river. There they lived until\\ntheir children were born, he being very well-to-do with\\nabout twenty thousand dollars worth of property.\\nAfter a time he became jealous of her, neglected his\\nbusiness, was more or less dissipated, and in a very\\nshort time lost all his property, when they went to live\\nwith her father and mother on the Salt Spring ranch\\nat New York ravine above Folson on the Sacramento\\nriver. This was a mining section and a great many\\ndeep shafts had been sunk by persons in quest of gold.\\nThere the feud was kept up between the whole of them\\nuntil one day about ten o clock Mr. Davis and a man\\nnamed Hiram Gilbert went out in the mountains hunt-\\ning, and Jezebel says, that in about two hours after-\\nwards, Hiram returned and said that Davis had gone\\nover the mountains to Wyoming Territory, and that was\\nthe last she ever saw or heard of him. Of course, it is a\\nvery natural and reasonable story, that a man should\\ngo out hunting and continue going from California to\\nWyoming and leave his young and unprotected children", "height": "3552", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\n13\\nbehind in the manner and under the circumstances so\\nfar seen. The picture of this man Hiram is presented\\nas a matter of evidence from which the reader may draw\\nthe inference that the bones of Bud Davis lie decaying\\nin one of the many deep shafts above stated.\\nHIRAM GILBERT.\\nJane N. and Jezebel were always very charry about\\ndiscussing the sudden and mysterious disappearance of\\nMr. Davis, and once the writer started to ask his spouse\\nhow it was that a man should go out hunting and walk", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\naway fifteen hundred miles leaving children and all\\nbehind without saying a word about his going. At this\\nthe old lady immediately jumped out of composure into\\nhysterics and ordered Cordelia Ann not to say one word\\nabout Davis, now, or ever in her life. That closed the\\nscene and talk and they forever after refused to answer\\nanything about the man gone to Wyoming, but really\\nin the mining shaft. Though much had been said in\\nprivate to the victim by the spouse before this time on\\nthis subject, so that a man would have to be dead in a\\nshaft himself not to know that poor Davis was murdered\\nbecause he had no more money, and so was rather a\\nhindrance than a help.\\nSince the passing of the tragical days of this story,\\nthe writer has no hesitancy in saying that from the facts\\nin his possession, some important ones being from a\\nconversation he accidently heard between these women,\\nthat Bud Davis was murdered by Hiram Gilbert at the\\ninstance of Jezebel and her mother as here so briefly\\npointed out.\\nWe now return to Woodland where the air is rife\\nwith society gossip about Senator Joe Harlan s daughter\\nVic. and her genial escort for the past ten years, Everett\\nL. Craft. The beauty, money, and accomplishments of\\nMiss Harlan made her a very interesting subject, and\\nthe generally conceded belle of the burgh, while Mr.\\nCraft was equally if not better thought of by all who\\nknew him. He was held in the greatest esteem by his\\nyoung associates, who were numbered by the thousands\\nthroughout the State. So it was no wonder that any-\\nthing seriously concerning this couple and brought\\nbefore the people of so small a place would work them\\nup to the highest tension. A Mr. Sill of the place had\\njust inherited a few thousand dollars from his deceased", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 15\\nfather and Miss Harlan was about to forsake her old\\nlover from childhood and become a bride of the man of\\nmoney.\\nMr. Craft, having squandered almost all of his\\nten years earnings for the comfort and entertainment of\\nMiss Harlan, was now of course very angry, and after\\nher marriage made some foolish and derogatory remarks\\nabout her, and whether true or false, excusable or justi-\\nfiable, an opinion thereof is not here expressed. There\\nwas now blood upon the moon and razors in the air,\\nand Senator Harlan was in frequent consultation with\\nhis attorneys, Ball Craige, over the Bank of Wood-\\nland adjoining the living flat of the victim. Family\\nhonor had been wounded, and a lover s heart strings\\ntorn asunder. The revenge of the pistol s pop was\\nmomentarily expected, for it was well understood that\\nthe sacrifice of human blood was the only atonement\\nthat could be made.\\nAnd true to this general expectation, on a beautiful\\nSunday afternoon, February 7, 1886, Senator Joe\\nHarlan, a reputed multimillionaire, after taking his\\nfamily to divine worship at the Disciple church, accom-\\npanied by his brother-in-law, went into the Brynes\\nhotel, where young E. L. Craft was sitting on the boot-\\nblack stand having his shoes polished, and as soon as\\nthe Senator espied his victim, and without any warning\\nhe commenced shooting, and Craft jumped from the\\nstand and ran, and as he ran he fired his pistol. The\\nSenator kept on shooting and Craft fell mortally\\nwounded. The Senator ran up to him, stooped and\\nplaced his revolver nearer the head of his victim and\\nfired another fatal shot, and then retreated with his\\nbrother-in-law, both unharmed. The victim was at the\\npostofrice and heard the shots, five in number, and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\npresently the Senator emerged from the front door of the\\nhotel, pistol in hand, and with a great crowd went to\\nthe sheriff s office and surrendered. The writer went\\nhome and on his way stopped at the law office of Ball\\nCraige and informed them of the shooting and killing.\\nThis was done because at that time the lawyers and\\nthe victim were supposed to be the best of friends and\\nhe wanted to give them a chance to protect their client.\\nHe then went on home and there related to his spouse\\nand her mother all he had just seen and heard about the\\nkilling and concluded by saying, that it was too bad\\nthese young folks should cause the old ones so much\\ntrouble, that in his judgement it would have been much\\nbetter for Mr. Harlan to have expended a few hundred\\ndollars in sending the young man out of the State for a\\nwhile and until his disappointment had been assuaged,\\nthan to have shot him for an alleged slander, that it\\nwould been time enough for killing after all reasonable\\nand peaceable means had been exhausted. These\\nremarks were subsequently repeated in substance in the\\nhearing of Mrs. George Bently, a friend of John D.\\nStephens, president of the Bank of Woodland, and of\\nwhich Ball Craige were attorneys, Miss Nora Cameron,\\nMr. Ball s niece, and his daughter Katie; and these\\nyoung women, about four months after this killing,\\ncame to the victim s house and again and persistently\\nengaged him in conversation about Victoria Harlan,\\nher marriage, c. And further on, it will be seen that\\nthese innocent words, with others, were by false and\\nsecret affidavits made by these persons named and\\nothers, tortured into an expression of slander against\\nMiss Harlan and her father believing such slander to\\nhave been uttered, as set out in such affidavits, there-\\nupon advanced $10,000 to have the victim assassinated", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 17\\nby hired murderers, the amount being stated by some of\\nthe assassins long after their failure to kill the victim.\\nIt is now a beauitful day near the first of April, 1886.\\nAll nature is alive, dressed in its most inviting garb.\\nThe green carpet of earth has been spread complete, the\\nbuds are out and the roses are in bloom, with the many\\nspring birds carolling in the bushes and trees. It is a\\nmost auspicious afternoon for a family matinee, which\\nis opened up by Jane N. ringing up the curtain about\\nthe many virtues of her grandchildren. To this, the\\nvictim demurred; whereupon Jezebel feigned an\\nhysterical fit, and Jane N. declared her daughter had\\nbeen murdered. The victim acted the remainder of his\\npart by suggesting that she had better be taken to New\\nYork ravine and buried in the shaft where Hiram had\\nburied Davis. This remark sealed the doom of the\\nvictim his life was plotted against from that time on.\\nImmediately after this entertainment, it was noticed\\nthat they commenced reading and taking unnatural\\ninterest in the case of Dr. Bowers of San Francisco, then\\non trial for poisoning his wife, besides they were seen\\nhaving frequent interviews with Dr. Strong, Lawyer\\nBall s bosom friend, who had often said he would take\\nthe chances and do anything Mr. Ball wanted him to\\ndo.\\nAnother fact was, that up to this time Jezebel had\\nalways presided over the tea and coffee at the table;\\nnow, without reason or necessity, Jane N. attended to\\nsuch duty and she would invariably peer into the cups\\nbefore pouring. Yet the victim could not believe that\\nthey would be foolish and dastardly enough to slow\\npoison him, though he often thought of the same, and\\nespecially for about the last month before Jane N. left\\nthe house for he was losing flesh very fast and ran", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ndown from one hundred seventy-five pounds to one\\nhundred forty-two, and little fine black spots broke out\\nover his body. He became irritable, restless, and\\nnervous, all of which, according to medical science,\\nwere indicative of slow poison with the further promi-\\nnent fact that quite soon after Jane N. left he com\\nmenced to recuperate. But what capped the climax of\\nhis suspicions was the fact of his detecting Jezebel in an\\nattempt to poison him with prussic acid, the facts of\\nwhich will be detailed in their order.\\nOf course, Senator Harlan was arrested and had to\\nstand trial for this murder, though he had nothing to\\nfear from the final result, except the expenditure of\\nconsiderable money. He was admitted to bail in the\\nsum of $40,000, which was immediately furnished by\\neight men each qualifying in the sum of $40, 000, mak-\\ning a bond of $320,000 given as a kind of bluff, for\\nbuncome, thus showing he had moneyed friends,\\nwhile his poor, dead victim was principally represented\\nby his poor old, but honored parents, who mourned\\nthe untimely and unjustifiable death of their only help\\nand son.\\nCharles H. Garoutte was the Superior Judge of Yolo\\nCounty at this time and the presiding judge at such\\ntrial. He had recently been elected by the money and\\ninfluence of most of the conspirators in this plot, though\\nhe was ostensibly opposed to them in politics; but of\\ncourse you know that wealthy men do not care what an\\nofficer s politics are, they want men they can control,\\nand such a one they had in the person of this judge,\\nwhich will be fully shown before we close. Judge\\nGaroutte was subsequently elevated to the Court of last\\nresort in the State and now holds such position, and\\nyou will observe that this statement is not made so", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\n19\\nmuch for showing the dishonor of Judge Garoutte as to\\nlet the fact be generally known the kind of material the\\nwealthy make- their judges out of, that the poor may\\ngovern themselves accordingly.\\nJUDGE CHAS. H. GAROUTTE.\\nThe first grand-stand play of Judge Garoutte was to\\nrefuse Harlan bail, thus trying to make it appear that\\nso far as the discretion of his Court was concerned it\\nwas against Harlan, knowing full well he would get", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nbail at Sacramento, thus paving the way to do Harlan\\ncertain and material good, in his rulings on the admiss-\\nion of evidence. To illustrate, on some material quest-\\nions of evidence, he ruled openly and wrongfully against\\nMr. Harlan so that in case the jury convicted him, the\\nverdict would be set aside and a new trial ordered upon\\nthe ground of error on the part of the trial court. Do\\nyou see how fine it is played in California? Do not\\nthink they are fools there, if they are generally corrupt?\\nThis case was on trial on May 18th following the\\nhomocide. It was one of the most remarkable murder\\ntrials that ever took place in the State, made so on\\naccount of the wealth of the defendant, his high social\\nstanding, the official positions he had held, and the\\ngeneral high estimate in which he was held, not alone\\nin Yolo County but throughout the State; and the\\nyoung deceased Craft was not a whit behind his slayer\\nin being highly regarded and esteemed by friends all\\nover California.\\nBall Craige were two of the defendant s attorneys.\\nCraige was the son-in-law of John D. Stephens, the\\nmillionaire bank president. He, having a few years\\nbefore eloped with the millionaire s daughter, had now\\nreturned with her and their children to be fed with the\\nbounteous crumbs that might fall from the millionaire s\\ntable. To sum him up in the fewest words possible, he\\nwas the worst and most detestable nondescript in that\\npart of the mundane sphere.\\nOn the last date mentioned, the victim was coming from\\nthe Court House where he had been listening to the\\ntrial, and on passing the grocery store of Mr. Burleson,\\non the corner of First and Main streets, this same Joe\\nCraige called to him and came out on the sidewalk\\nwhere he was and requested the victim to go to his law", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 21\\noffice. He noticed something guilty and sheepish look-\\ning more than usual about the nondescript, and while\\nsitting and talking in his law office the victim noticed\\na woman s hair on his right leg below the knee, and\\nunnoticed by Craige he picked it off and presently went\\nhome, where he obtained a hair from his spouse s head\\nand then returned to his law office, after first having\\nobtained a magnifying glass from a jeweler by the name\\nof Geogelee across the street. There under the glass he\\ncompared the two hairs and found them to be identical\\nthat fact being easily established because her hair had\\nbeen blonded and was now grown about half way out,\\nwhich of course made the hairs half natural and half\\nblonded.\\nThis of course was fine evidence but it was as certain\\nas it was fine, and led to the discovery of Jezebel s\\ninfidelity not alone with this cur but with nearly all\\nthe rich and powerful men who were conspirators in\\nthis plot. The writer had never read nor heard of\\nanother clue of this kind being the means of tracing\\nout crime until on March 12, 1898, when a dead child\\nwas found on the ice at Erie near Buffalo, N. Y. The\\nBuffalo papers reported the circumstance also that in\\nthe bundle in which the child was wrapped a solitary\\nred hair was found, which led to the discovery of the\\nmother who confessed the whole matter. So now the\\nvictim s case of detective work does not stand without\\na parallel.\\nNo pen nor words can describe the emotions and feel-\\nings of a man under such circumstances and no money\\ncould induce our victim to undergo such torture as here-\\nin portrayed, not knowing what the final result would\\nbe. But be that as it may he had been a Mason for a\\nnumber of years and was foolish enough to think the", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nmere fact of a man s being the Master of a lodge would\\nsurely help a brother in distress. So he sought W. H.\\nBaker s law office, one of Mr. Harlan s attorneys, and\\nthere in a measure detailed his woe and solicited his\\nadvice and help which was very profusely promised, but\\nonly to be taken advantage of the same as the nonde-\\nscript. This cooked the goose of the victim s confi-\\ndence in Masons, simply because they were Masons;\\nthey have to be men first, then they may be Masons.\\nTrouble of the kind now under immediate discussion\\nis the most rending and desperate a decent man ever\\nhad, and for the purpose of obtaining comfort and relief\\nhe will resort to any kind of effort or experiment, and\\nso our victim having a lawyer friend, namely, Add. C.\\nHinkson at Sacramento City, who was also a friend of\\nthe whole conspiracy, and believing therefore that some-\\nthing might be done, went to see Mr, Hinkson who\\nagreed to come over to Woodland in a few days, and\\nwas certain that he could calm the troubled sea. When\\nhe came, he went direct to the conspirators and by\\nthe time he got around to the victim his whole\\ndemeanor was changed from what it was at Sacramento.\\nThere he was disposed to talk and devise plans for the\\nbest; now, he had nothing to say, but tried to leave the\\nimpression that he was the victim s friend, who then\\nwell knew that he was a gangerous traitor and was try-\\ning to sycophant the favor of the all around criminal\\ngang, simply because they were wealthy and powerful\\nand might bring him in a crumb sometime. The victim\\never afterward played Hinkson s own game of duplicity\\nagainst him and in that way made valuable use of him\\nas these pages will yet show.\\nSingular coincidences were, that as soon as the victim\\nhad discovered Jezebel s infidelity, she and Jane N. dis-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 23\\ncovered that he was crazy, and by all the arts, wiles,\\nand skill of generally bad women they contrived to cir-\\nculate their wonderful discovery, being ably assisted by\\nher paramours and the whole conspiracy which had\\nnow grown to quite a large number, thirty or more.\\nWith a little working capital of about six hundred dol-\\nlars, they were enabled to make quite an impression\\namong the people, who now began to look and stare as\\nif to say, Why, this is strange, they say he is off, but\\nI do not see anything to show it. They were quite\\nskillful in making this play, for while they were secretly\\ndoleing out the alleged fact of the victim s insanity\\ncalamity, they pretended to be his very best friends,\\nwhich, of course, enabled them to make some headway\\nfor, if a man s friends were all claiming he was crazy it\\nmight be true.\\nNow, Allen T. Bird, an all around crook and editor\\nof the Yolo Mail was one of these conspirators, and\\nto fittingly help these insanity mongers along, printed\\nthe following libel in his paper:\\nA PROMISED WOODLAND SENSATION.\\nIt was common talk on the streets of Woodland last\\nevening that another sensation was likely to occur, and\\nthere was a general air of expectancy and belief that the\\npetulent pop of the pistol might at any moment be\\nheard. These rumors are said to have been caused by\\nthe fact that a certain lawyer has been making threats\\nagainst another limb of the law, who, he asserts, has\\nbeen intimate with his wife. Friends of the accused man\\nsay that the accuser is on the verge of insanity from\\ndrink, and that his alleged wrongs are imaginary. The\\nwarrior who is on the war path is likely to be examined\\nby the commissioners of lunacy unless he soon subsides,\\nand it is known that preliminary steps have been taken\\nto such action.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24\\nA CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nRemember this was about the first of June, 1886,\\nwhen the victim was so very crazy; also that Frank\\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY SPRAGUE.\\nSprague, whose photo we present as point of study and\\nevidence and who had, the same as Judge Garoutte,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 25\\nbeen recently elected for carrying out the foul schemes\\nof this gang, now came forward and made affidavit for a\\nwarrant of arrest for the victim because he was so very\\ndangerously crazy. We also present this affidavit\\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA,\\nCounty of Yolo. j ss#\\nFrank Sprague being duly sworn on oath says, that\\nhe is informed and believes that there is now in said\\nCounty an insane person whose name is P. M. Sullivan,\\nwho is so far disordered in mind as to endanger health,\\nperson or property, and affiant therefore asks that said\\nperson be arrested and taken before a judge of a Court\\nof Record within said County for examination.\\nFRANK SPRAGUE.\\nSubscribed and sworn to before me\\nthis 6th day of July, A. D., 1886.\\nFred Schleman, Clerk.\\nThis affidavit was adroitly brought to the ears of the\\nvictim as a kind of scare and bluff into silence. Because\\n(these libertines knew their reputation in this regard was\\nso unsavory before the people, that, as soon as it was\\ntouched with an accusation of truth, it would fall to\\npieces, so they had to do something to break the victim\\ndown. He understood this situation just as well as\\nthey did, and governed himself accordingly. He was\\nfurther satisfied that they dared not stop the murder\\ntrial of Harlan now in progress, which lasted about\\nseventy-five days, to try to send him to an asylum,\\nJudge Garoutte being the only person who had legal\\npower to make such a committment, for the moment\\nthe trial was stopped for such a purpose the people\\nwould be aroused and see through the whole farce, and\\nthe result would be more disastrous to them than to the\\nvictim. So if done, it must be in some way, done in", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nsecret, and their plan in this regard will soon develop.\\nJ. C. Bull, originally from Ohio, was the general-\\nissimo of this conspiracy, which, under his grand\\nmanagement, had now grown to be large and formidable.\\nHenry E. Heighten, chief l counsel of Harlan, ex-\\nAttorney- General A. L. Hart, the District Attorney s\\nassistant in this case, Sheriff Beamer, and a host of\\nothers were members in high and lacivious standing,\\nand of course mutual protection was the Shibboleth\\namong them; and the Sheriff and. District Attorney for\\nthe purpose of winning new laurels and proving them-\\nselves entitled to full recognition and confidence, as well\\nas future political preferment, now called at the victim s\\nhome, and for the first and last time, and after chatting\\nfor a while in a general way arose, and as the Sheriff\\nwas about to retire said Well I guess I won t arrest\\nyou this evening, you appear to be sane enough. The\\nvictim understood this was a play at intimidation to\\nsilence, and was so thoroughly disgusted with their weak\\nand criminal bluff, made them no reply and they\\nhustled out.\\nGeneralissimo was now in great glee, reveling among\\nthe realms of self-adulation. He was next to the chief\\ncounsel in the defense of a great murder trial, which\\nmany of the people said he brought about by aggravat-\\ning advice in order that he might get a whack at the fat\\npocketbook of the accused. He was the acknowledged\\nchief organizer of a large conspiracy to ruin a man to\\nhide his own infamy. His self-written greatness was\\ncirculating through the newspapers and his photo-\\ngraphed physique was spread and given both right and\\nleft. We present one of his photos here.\\nWe warn you to be careful and not take him for\\nBrigham Young. From his own lecherous standpoint", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\n27\\nhe had great cause for rejoicing; for he was now sure of\\nhis reckoning and had a large fawning army to back him.\\nHe and the Bank of Woodland were the pivot around\\nwhich an admiring multitude were circulating. They\\nGENERALISSIMO.\\nwere the dispensary at which a priest, preachers,\\nteachers, doctors, lawyers, editors, merchants, ladies of\\nease, pimps and politicians received the reward for their\\nsubservient and debauched infamy. Having repeatedly", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nbeen in this kind of business for the greater part of his\\nnatural life, Generalissimo was assuredly the right kind\\nof man for the place he now occupied. He was afflicted\\nin about the same way as the horse which ate the Po\\nPo Compound, instead of being one horse, he was now\\ntwo, or more.\\nThis lacivious combine was now a government within\\nitself, and so must have its secret service system, its\\nmail system, and so on down the line. They had\\nseveral secret letter stations where Jezebel could safely\\ndeposit and surely receive communications for and from\\nthe combine whenever the same might be necessary for\\nadvisement on any new departure, or emergency case\\nthat might arise. Ley s photograph gallery was the\\nprincipal one of these offices. The secret service depart-\\nment was presided over by Pimp Provost, assisted by a\\nMr. Houston, the assessor, as his chief deputy. By\\nthis department the victim s whereabouts were known\\nboth night and day, and his actions and words were\\nclosely noted, so that if perchance he made the least\\nthreat against the lives of any of this array, he might be\\narrested and required to give bonds to keep the peace,\\nwhich would have been placed so high that he could not\\nreach them, and then he could be placed in jail, and\\nmatters would then have been just lovely for the com-\\nbine.\\nBut he gave them no chance for such arrest, know-\\ning its sure results then, the same as here pointed\\nout. And in trying to work this kind of play, they sent\\nall classes, kinds, ages, and sexes to him to draw him\\nout into making some remark that could be tortured\\ninto a threat against life. Long before this time, he\\nunderstood their plan of ruin, and he was fighting them\\nas they were him, in secret, pretending friendship, and", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 29\\ncarefully noting in writing, acts and facts of any partic-\\nular moment, which, the reader will observe, are now\\nbeing put to good and wholesome use. Just to illustrate\\nthe ways of the secret clan, which, it is safe to calculate\\nwould be duplicated under like circumstances, this Mr.\\nHouston as a reward was selected assessor and Provost\\nwas made his deputy. Ex-Sheriff Rahaum and ex-\\nCounty-Treasurer Kane with many others too numerous\\nto mention were in this secret service department. It\\nwas a very large, rich pie and of course all wanted a\\npiece and those that did not get any then will be given\\nnone now.\\nThe slow poison which the victim had been uncon-\\nsciously getting now for nearly three months was begin-\\nning to leave its effects, which, together with the work\\nand worry incident to a campaign of this kind was\\nplainly visible in his appearance. So the great General-\\nissimo and Jezebel, being so very solicitous of his wel-\\nfare, concocted the plan of having Dr. Strong prescribe\\nfor him, and in this plot she worked very hard for some\\ntime, but all to no avail, for he knew this doctor and\\nthe general were pals, and had been bosom friends for\\nyears, and he was through with trusting any of this\\ncombine: Besides, he had heard the doctor say, he\\nwould go any length for Ball, also that he would kill a\\nman for twenty-five dollars, this last assertion growing\\nout of a discussion about the doctor s having the best of\\nthe attorneys, wherein they could bury their clients.\\nSo this plan of destruction failed, and another was\\ndevised by the officers of the combine, to have Jezebel\\ninduce the victim to take a trip to the mountains under\\nthe pretense that a change of climate would do him\\ngood. Upon this scheme she worked very skillfully\\nand hard for some days, but failed to induce him to", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nbelieve that such a course was advisable. He had seen\\ntoo much of mountain life already. He had known of\\nmen going to the mountains with their assumed best\\nfriends, and be taken by them for a deer or grizzly bear\\nand shot. He also knew of the fatal hunting trip of\\npoor murdered Davis with Hiram at Salt Spring ranch.\\nThe breath that it had taken to propose this last mur-\\nder plot had scarcely been wasted, until Generalissimo\\nbeing chagrined under defeat and panting with rage to\\nmurder a poor, obscure citizen in secret, conceived\\nanother plot in which he was the person to do the job\\nand thereby have no more failures. This next exter-\\nmination scheme was a deer hunt which the valiant\\ngeneral proposed to the victim. The place to hunt was\\nCasche Creek near Woodland, where there had not been\\na deer for years, though the victim was not presumed to\\nknow this fact, he having been a resident there for so\\nshort a time. The victim was known to be a good shot\\nand fond of such sport, but somehow he did not seem\\nto fall into the trap, and the whole killing scheme of\\nboth deer and victim failed, which left Generalissimo\\nwith his army of sirens and libertines stranded on the\\nshores of Scheming Defeat.\\nThe insanity fagots which had been lighted to burn\\nup the victim were now nickering very low, and the\\ninjury done Avas more to the combine than to him, and\\nthey not being able to use their Judge at this time for\\nsuch incarceration purpose, hence their resort to the\\nsecret murder plots and it is perfectly plain that if the\\nvictim had gone to the mountains or hunting deer it\\nwould have been a dear hunt for him. He would have\\nbeen shot, and the professed but false friendships by\\nthis combine for him, together with their wealth and\\ntheir control of the press and officials, would have pre-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 31\\nvented discovery and forever silenced all inquiry about\\nhis untimely demise. You see the trouble with them,\\nas in most all cases, they were overrating themselves\\nand underrating the object of their hate.\\nThe spouse now undertook to simulate a very lively\\ninterest in the social and beneficial welfare of the victim\\nshe thought it would be real nice for him to join a social\\nand beneficial order with an insurance policy of $3,000\\nattached. It would make a place for him to spend a\\nvisiting evening, besides in case of death this money\\nwould come in very handy. She suggested a flourish-\\ning order called the Chosen Friends, but he had chosen\\nall the friends he wanted just then, besides his fear of\\ndying was not equal to their desire to have him die, and\\nsuffice it to say, he did not join nor insure, and so it\\nwas another little plot fizzled.\\nThe officers of the combine were now in desperate\\nstraits. The victim was going about his business in his\\nusual manner, and the insanity seed was not producing\\naccording to calculation, but was rather like an old pair\\nof pants, fraying out at the bottom. The outsiders to\\nthis scandal were beginning to see this insanity dis-\\ncovery was no discovery at all further than to show the\\nparties who started the same must have been egregiously\\nwrong, or else had some deep and mysterious reason for\\nso doing. These outsiders could not reconcile the\\nasserted friendship of these people for the victim, and\\nat the same time their assertion that he was crazy, when\\nthey knew this insanity charge was false. They knew\\nthere must be some ulterior reason for this conflicting\\nattitude, so it must be that some of these parties were\\nbreaking up the victim s home and their unsavory\\nreputation in this respect was about all the decent people\\nwanted to know on this insanity charge.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThese destroyers were in some sense not fools and\\nunderstood the whole condition of affairs and the senti-\\nment of the people, and hence that their secret murder\\nplot must be re-organized on a large and more certain\\nscale, or they would all be found out and exposed, and\\nthey themselves would be ruined instead of the victim.\\nWhat a catastrophe for such a wealthy lot of lords!\\nTo work out this contemplated end, especially of\\nsecrecy, Generalissimo sent his son Joe, a law student in\\nhis office, away to his ranch in Colusa County also W.\\nT. Hunt who had sleeping apartments on the opposite\\nside of the hall to Jezebel s flat and Ball Craige s\\nlaw office, went away at the same time, and instead of\\ngiving up the keys to the landlord, secretly gave them to\\nJezebel. This was on June 30, 1886, and Mr. Hunt\\nand little Joe did not return until the battle was about\\nover on September 27, 1886, the day Jezebel evacuated\\nher flat and moved to a convenient place for her busi-\\nness.\\nWe must give the devil his due and say, it was\\neminently good criminal judgment to send the young\\nman and old man away from the immediate scene of an\\nintended murder, for if ever called upon to give evi-\\ndence, they might fall down in their testimony there-\\nfore, it would be safest to lodge this crime only in the\\nbreasts of well-experienced and desperate criminals, who\\neach had a mutual interest in its secrecy.\\nWe think it was the last day mentioned this great\\nmurder trial was proceeding in the Opera House in\\nfront of the stage. There was a small door cut in front\\nof the stage for the accommodation of the orchestra, who\\nwould open this door and emerge or retire, as the case\\nmight require, there being four or five steps of stairs to\\ngo up or down. Some of the decent people of Woodland", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3561", "width": "2390", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nraised a pool, and through misplaced confidence,\\nretained ex- Attorney-General Hart to assist the District\\nAttorney in the prosecution of the case. Hart had\\nclandestinely become acquainted with Jezebel during\\nthis trial and was now her special friend. He and\\nCraige were whispering together at the trial when all at\\nonce one of the secret spies, who had been stationed at\\nthe entrance to give the alarm in case of the danger from\\nthe victim, signalled an alarm of danger, and pell-mell\\nthe cur jumped over Hart, grabbed the orchastra door\\nand jerked it open and tumbled down the little stairs\\nunder the stage.\\nCourt was interrupted and all suspended for a moment\\nor two, and the danger alarm being found to be false,\\nand the Court, officers and lawyers all being fully\\nadvised as to the situation from previous guilty know-\\nledge, resumed the trial without a word being said but\\nof course they afterwards had a good one on the\\ncowardly cur, who was there surrounded by the power\\nand protection of millions of dollars, and a secret body\\nguard to protect him from a one lone individual, and\\nthen jumping through himself on the approach of a\\nshadow.\\nAnother little episode occurred on the evening of this\\nday in which the combine s Jezebel circumstantially\\nproved her and their guilt. It was this way: The\\nvictim was on the street and some boys fired off some\\nbombs, which sounded like pistol shots. She heard\\nthe noise and ran to the head of the stairs and called to\\nPhilip Dapanger, who was at the bottom of the stairs,\\nto come there quick, somebody had been shot. Mr.\\nDapanger went up the stairs, and then she first tried\\nthe office door of Ball Craige, but finding it locked,\\nshe tried the door of Mr. Hunt s room to which she", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 35\\nhad the keys in her pocket, but did not attempt to un-\\nlock it. Then she said, Phil, you know Sullivan is\\nnot in his right mind and I am afraid he will kill some-\\nbody. A guilty conscience needs no accuser, and\\nwhen she heard the fireworks she thought it was the\\nexpected death of the victim, and she wanted Dapanger\\nthere to clear her skirts then when no one was found\\ndead, the silly excuse to cover her scare, that the victim\\nwas crazy, a matter they could not prove, nor will this\\nbook prove, but quite the contrary.\\nThese secret failures of the conspiracy, and the senti\\nments of the people now plainly turning against it, were\\ngoading it on to desperation they must do something\\nwith the victim soon and effectual, or their exposure\\nwould surely follow, and that would be equivalent to\\nthe ruin of all of them. So at last a new plot was\\nevolved, and John W. Goin, another of Harlan s\\nattorneys, was brought into use. If any man could\\nhave any influence with the victim it was known this\\nattorney could, because of the fact of Mr. Goin s being\\na man and a Mason and so considered by the victim as\\nwell as by all others, was also well known. Now, Mr.\\nGoin was specifically informed of what was desired of him\\nthough he was by no means let into the inner circle of\\nthe secrets of the combine. He was to go to the victim\\nand inform him that unless he would go to San Fran-\\ncisco and remain for a while he would certainly be\\nmurdered in his own house at night, but that if he\\nwould consent to go, money would be furnished him for\\nhis necessary expenses, and as an earnest, Mr. Goin then\\no ffered the preliminary sum of $20 in gold to start the\\ntrip.\\nSo inasmuch as he had some business at San\\nFrancisco, and as he would avoid the persecutions of", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nthe conspiracy at its expense, he consented to go as\\nsoon as he could arrange some matters. But little did\\nhe think of the real designs of this conspiracy at that\\ntime, neither did Mr. Goin know of their real motives\\nin getting the victim to San Francisco.\\nAs soon as the conspiracy obtained information that\\nthe victim had agreed with Mr. Goin to go to San Fran-\\ncisco, Attorney Craige hurriedly left the defense of his\\nmurderer and went to San Francisco, that being his old\\nstamping ground, and the place where he planned the\\nelopement escapade with the bank president s daughter.\\nHe was one of the boys from this city and knew its\\ngutters and byways, its thugs, crooks, and crooked\\nofficials in general. He returned and then this Attorne}^\\nBaker likewise left the defense of Harlan and went to\\nSan Francisco and remained away for a few days. Our\\nvictim noted these facts and began to meditate on their\\nmeaning. After reasoning on the situation he was able\\nto see what a perfect defense it would be for this con-\\nspiracy to be able, in truth, to say the victim was all\\nwrong and in proof of the same, he had been sent to an\\nasylum, even if only for a day, from San Francisco.\\nAnd he began to see how easy it would be for these two\\nattorneys to have fixed the witnesses, commissioners\\nand Judge while they were at San Francisco, and how\\nreasonable it was that they left the defense of the\\nmurder trial and went there for that same purpose, and\\nhow easily this could be done with only a few dollars\\nin a case such as his. All of these facts and many more\\nof a similar and convincing character were actually\\noperating upon his mind for a few days before he went,\\nand he was fearful of this going to the Bay, but it was\\nthe best he could do under the circumstances, besides\\nhe had promised Mr. Goin that he would go down and", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 37\\nso he must and did go. It was early in the morning of\\nJuly 13th, 1886, when the victim and Jezebel, who\\ncould not be- stopped from taking this trip, stepped\\nacross the street to the Capital Hotel to take the buss to\\nthe depot, on their way to San Francisco. Mr. Torrence,\\nthe proprietor of the hotel was there with a wild\\nenquiring look upon his countenance, and at the same\\ntime, wearing such a sickly cunning look as always\\ndistinguishes a cowardly knave, who is conscious of\\nsome undeserved harm about to befall a fellow being.\\nHe is introduced here only as a kind of prelude to his\\ninfamy in trying to fawn favor by swearing false against\\nthe liberty of the victim further on in the campaign.\\nA Mrs. Dyer was there at the hotel entrance with Mr.\\nTorrence, with the look of some great secret in her eye,\\nwhich could easily be interpreted to state the fact and\\nsay: Sullivan, poor man, I know you are betrayed by\\nall your hard earned friends. I know they have con-\\nspired for your liberty and death. I know you saved\\nmy husband from State s Prison, but I have left him\\nnow. Those men are rich, they are wealthy. I must\\ncast my lot with them. I must not warn you of your\\ndanger or perhaps they will likewise ruin me. Now,\\nthis Mrs. Dyer is given as a fair sample of the kind and\\ncharacter these conspirators had under control and the\\npower they had over them.\\nOn the train at Woodland bound for San Francisco\\nabout ninety miles distant by rail, the first one seen\\nthat was known to the victim was this same mellifluous\\nBird of the Woodland Mail, who was observed the pre-\\nvious evening in close and serious conversation with\\nAttorney Craige, and though being well acquainted with\\nMr. Bird, and having sat in the same Masonic lodge\\nwith him, and never having had any trouble wdth him,", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nit was strange he should refuse to speak with the victim\\nand should intentionally keep away from him. These\\nuncalled for and unnatural actions on the part of the\\nBird were at once detected and had great weight in the\\nvictim s mind; in fact he thought then, as the fact\\nproved to be, that Bird was along as a kind of bunco\\nsteerer for the millionaires in running the victim into\\nthe meshes of ruin.\\nOn the way down to the Bay at Vallijo Junc-\\ntion, a married woman, who a few years before\\nhad resided at Folson, boarded the train and she\\nand this Bird seemed to recognize each other by having\\nsome business together, though the victim was certain\\nthey had never met before. The victim now summed\\nup the situation substantially as follows: When he knew\\nthis woman at Folson he had money. She knew it and\\nlaid pipes to get it by offering to leave her husband and\\ngo with him, which offer was refused, and she was now\\nseeking to revenge herself by going to San Francisco to\\nhelp swear him into an asylum. She was greatly\\nchagrined and angered at the refusal of her offer, and\\nprotested her fine form, good looks, and education.\\nNow, Jezebel had adroitly at the beginning of her house-\\nkeeping with the victim found out about this affair, and\\ninformed her conspirators of the same, and they, being\\nadepts in such business, knowing this Vallejo siren\\nwould do anything for revenge and a little money, had\\nemployed her for the purpose already pointed out. And\\nthis was the situation so far. The victim and spouse\\nhad now arrived at Oakland and taken the ferry-boat\\nto go across the bay eight miles to San Francisco. The\\nBird was flying around in close proximity, but studi-\\nously avoiding any conversation with the victim; this\\nwas so the victim could never testify to anything that he", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 39\\nhad said, and that he would not be able to ask him any\\nquestions that might possibly lead to the victim s bene-\\nfit; in short, mum was the only safe rule, accord-\\ning to the advice of the cur. As soon as Jezebel\\ngot on the boat she was in a great and unseemly rush to\\nget ahead and go near the bow of the boat, where she\\nsat down directly facing a large man dressed in black\\nwith a silk hat, who wore rather short, black whiskers.\\nAs soon as the eyes of this man and those of the victim\\nmet, mutual detection followed. The silk hat man was\\nspotted by the victim as being a detective, and being\\nsuch, he knew he was spotted. As soon as the boat\\nlanded Mr. Detective and Mr. Bird walked off together\\nand went up Market Street a few blocks and turned to\\nthe right up Pacific Street. The detective becoming\\ndisgusted with this farcial outrage withdrew from the\\ncase.\\nAs soon as Jezebel sat down on the boat in front of\\nthe detective, the victim knew he had a much more\\ndesperate plot to outgeneral to save his liberty than he\\nhad before conceived of, though from Vallejo down he\\nwas satisfied that the insanity plot was the play, in this\\nlarge city where little noise or comment would be made\\nabout it, such things being of frequent occurrence there.\\nNow he well knew that incarceration in an asylum was\\nhis doom if he did not baffle their plans in some way.\\nHe fully realized that the plot was secretly and deeply\\nlaid, and backed with all the money necessary to carry\\nit into successful execution, and that it would take\\nwork as fine as the hair discovery to beat this barbarous\\nconspiracy and prevent it from landing him in an\\nasylum that very day.\\nThen, as he loved his liberty, it behooved him to\\nthwart, beat, and kill the plot of these criminals who", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwere trying to imprison him to hide and break down the\\nevidence of their own criminal acts and immoral con-\\nduct. And then the plan seemed to come to him, while\\nsitting in the ferry-boat in front of the detective, which\\nwas worked out in this way He said to her in a loud\\ntone, We did not sleep any last night, so we will go to\\nSwan s Restaurant on Market Street opposite the Palace\\nHotel, and get our breakfast, then go and lie down for a\\nwhile and rest before we begin our business. This plan\\nof eating and sleeping was of course for the purpose of\\ngetting time to think and watch developments, and if\\npossible to lay some other scheme to get away from\\ntheir hot pursuit, and certain ruin.\\nNow, this detective, seen on the boat, was a very\\nbright, smart fellow, and the victim was satisfied that he\\nwas either forever disgusted with the outrage or had\\ngone to substitute another in his place, and a substitute\\nit was, for, as soon as they entered Swan s Restaurant,\\nthere was another detective seen sitting by the counter\\nfacing the entrance door, who undertook to closely scan\\nthe victim as he entered, rather as the butcher picks out\\nthe animals as they are driven to the slaughter. He\\nwas of a sandy complexion, smooth shaven, weighed\\nabout one hundred eighty pounds, but not half so bright\\nas the one on the boat Jezebel designedly seated herself\\nat the table so as to face the detective, while the victim s\\nback was toward him. She was caught shaking her\\nhead, meaning No, and there were noticed several\\nother actions that the writer must refrain from stating.\\nAfter breakfast, she proposed going to rooms adjoining,\\nto lie down, and the detective then arose and went up\\nthe stairs to the floor of these rooms, whereupon the\\nvictim declined to go, but instead repaired to 414 Sutter\\nStreet, and as they were going up the stairs, who should", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 41\\nbe there at the landing but the same detective seen at\\nthe Restaurant, with two more persons about the calibre\\nand size of police court bailiffs. The victim is now\\nringing the bell and talking to the attendant arranging\\nfor a room, and one of these bailiffs is knocking on a\\ndoor with a little dude stick ostensibly to gain admit-\\ntance, but in reality to size up the victim.\\nAt this place, room No. 36 on the second floor was\\nassigned to them, and about as soon as they had entered\\nthe same, three or four persons, judging from the sound\\nof their footsteps, went into the room adjoining, which\\nwas separated by a lathe and plaster partition wall with\\na communicating door and a transom over it. Jezebel\\nsoon laid down on top of the bed, taking the inside next\\nto this partition to the room where the thugs had just\\nentered. The victim now lopped down on the fore side\\nof the bed and silence reigned supreme in each of these\\nrooms.\\nHe soon feigned to be asleep and in about half\\nan hour there came three low distinct raps on this par-\\ntition wall from the thug room and quicker than the\\nassertion can be made Jezebel answered back on the wall\\nwith three light raps. The victim, realizing the mean-\\ning of these raps was almost as portentous as death to\\nhim. at once asked her what she was doing by answer-\\ning those raps on the wall. She said, Oh, I didn t\\nknow I did. I was asleep. My hand must have fallen\\nagainst the wall. Then again all was soon still and\\nsilent, and in quite a long time, say an hour, the victim\\nbeing awake but dozing, heard the creaking of the tran-\\nsom over the communicating door, and lying where he\\ncould see it, there as a man s hand working to open it,\\nand at this time Jezebel began to slide down near the\\nfoot of the bed. The victim jumped off the bed, pre-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ntending he had been asleep, and said, It s so late we\\ncan t do anything today we 11 go over the bay to Oak-\\nland to Tubb s Hotel, and stay all night, and you can\\nsee your friends there, and the next day we will be\\nprepared for work. But she was very much averse to\\ngoing over to Oakland, because it would materially\\ninterfere wilh the insanity plot, while a refusal to go\\nwould call out some reason, which might again operate\\ndisastrously to them, so she quietly acquiesced, taking\\nher chances on yet effectually doing the victim up.\\nIt was now nearly three o clock in the afternoon, and\\nwhile he had been lying there on the bed some very\\nhard thinking and close planning had been done to\\nprotect his liberty, for he knew that if he were ever\\narrested he would have no hope of escape, for the doctors\\nand judges would, for the money and favor of the com-\\nbine, do whatever it wanted them to do. So he had\\nevolved the plan of getting over to Oakland about the\\ntime the train returned to Woodland, and to board it\\nand then he would be safe for that day at least. Just\\nas they were leaving room No. 36, he admonished her\\nnot to tell the landlady where they were going, but\\ncontrary to this, just as he was paying for the room,\\nJezebel said to the landlady, Mr. Sullivan is going\\nover to Oakland to stay all night at the Tubbs Hotel.\\nHer object, of course, was to inform the landlady so\\nthat the thugs might be sure of his whereabouts without\\nmuch difficulty, while the victim s object in cautioning\\nher was because he knew her so well that he anticipated\\nshe would do this very thing of giving their whereabouts\\naway to the landlady and he thought he would try to\\nprevent such a contingency for he did not really know\\nbut that he might miss the train to Woodland and in", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 43\\nsuch case he would go to this hotel, and if he went there\\nhe was extremely fearful of his safety.\\nThe detective and bailiffs remained in their room\\nuntil after the victim had left his, and, of course, after\\nhis departure from the house they found out from the\\nlandlady where the game had flown to and the detect-\\nive was at the ferry at the foot of Market Street, going\\nto Oakland, before the victim was. Now, as soon as\\nthe victim had gotten just a little away from 414 Sutter\\nStreet on to Kearney Street, there was the vulture Bird\\nwith his Vallejo woman in dose proximity to the\\nintended prey, and the expressions that came over her\\nand Jezebel s faces as they passed and realized that the\\nvictim was not yet ruined were like the blackest clouds\\nbut not a word was said, for the policy and plan of\\naction was mum and secrecy. Now a little distance\\nfarther on, this physically and morally broken-down\\ncrook, Amasa Mars before mentioned from Folson was\\nmet.\\nThis trio were all in the city this day to prove the\\nvictim insane, and Mars admitted this about a year after\\nwhen the campaign was over and all was thought to be\\nsettled and serene. Besides other thugs at about this\\nlast named time told the victim the same thing, and\\nlaughediand joked about it saying, When there was so\\nmuch sugar a man would be a fool not to get some of it.\\nOn their way doAvn to the ferry, the victim solaced\\nhimself by the delusive idea that after he had beat the\\nconspiracy in its plans of the day, then these murderers\\nwould be dispirited and desist and his torture would be\\nat an end; but not so, they were more wicked than ever.\\nThe time had been very luckily calculated for as soon\\nas they arrived at the ferry the boat was ready to start\\nfor Oakland, and as soon as it landed at the pier, there", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nstood the train waiting for its passengers for Woodland,\\nSacramento, and so on up the State. He went off the\\nboat and toward this train and Jezebel then said,\\nWhere are you going that s the wrong way. No,\\nhe said, its the right way, and I am going back to\\nWoodland. She stood in amazement and was white\\nwith rage. It was the first and only time she was ever\\nseen by him to lose herself. She said, Going to Wood-\\nland; you crazy lunatic, you ought to go to the\\nasylum. He said, Yes, perhaps so, but I will not go\\ntoday. There was nothing left for her to do but get\\naboard or be left, so she silently and sullenly came on\\nthe train, and it immediately pulled out for Woodland.\\nThe intended sacrifice was not made. The whole\\ncombination of villains and murderers had lost the battle\\nof the day and they must now retreat, re-organize and\\nadopt some new plan or device of destruction. It was\\nnow demonstrated that the victim could not be sent to\\nthe asylum either from Woodland or from San Fran-\\ncisco. An entire fresh and new plot must be laid or\\nall would be ruined. So the telegraph wires were\\nbrought into requisition, and the great murder general,\\nB. N. Bugby from Folson started for Woodland, and\\nwas met at the Davisville Junction ten miles from\\nWoodland. He was absolutely mum and would have\\nnothing to say to the victim, though they were well\\nacquainted, he having often been in the victim s law\\noffice at Folson, but now something unusually strange\\ncame over him. The victim divined the meanning of his\\nappearance as soon as he saw him on the train, and\\nhence tried to draw him out but could not. In due\\ntime, the train arrived at Woodland and Bugby went to\\nBall Craige s law office, which only confirmed the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 45\\nvictim s mind of his further intended ruin by this com-\\nbine.\\nJezebel would not sleep in her flat that evening, giv-\\ning as an excuse that it might burn down. Perhaps as\\nBugby s home at Folson had burned and he was now\\nin town this bank building might burn. However, in\\norder to avoid trouble, room No. 49 at the Craft Hotel\\nwas hired for her at twelve o clock at night. One of\\nher principal motives was to obey the commands of the\\nconspiracy and be in a convenient place to receive her\\nmurder orders for the next day, that were to be form-\\nulated and decided upon that night by General Bugby\\nCompany.\\nThe victim was up and out about six o clock the next\\nmorning, and he noticed his physician, Dr. Ross, from\\nCanada, leaving town. This was ominous to him for\\nhe concluded that if they were going to try to murder\\nhim in some way, or if they succeeded in doing so, one\\nof the things they would do would be to fix this doctor,\\nand the cheapest way to do so would be to have him leave\\ntown, and that would relieve him of any connection as\\nwitness or otherwise in the premises, a perfect alibi\\nbeing the best and surest kind of plan. The next\\nominous fact noted was the early appearance of Dentist\\nDick on the scene. Now he was out at six o clock,\\nwhen half past eight o clock was his usual time of get-\\nting to the office. As the victim went up the stairs to\\nhis home, the Dentist, whose office was in the bank\\nbuilding on the opposite side of the hall to Ball s office,\\nfollowed him up. The pursued unlocked the door, left\\nthe key therein, stepped to the hydrant, and took a\\ndrink of water. Then he returned to get his key, but it\\nwas gone.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThere had been no person on the floor but the\\nDentist, and of course the conclusion was inevitable\\nthat he took it. The victim immediately accused him\\nof so doing, and he stuttered and stammered and with\\neyes slinking like a cat under a bed, he finally succeeded\\nin denying it. But when Jezebel returned that morning\\nhe gave it to her and she tried to slip it into the victim s\\nvest pocket unnoticed, but unfortunately for them she\\nwas detected in the act. Just why the dentist stole that\\nkey is hard to say. It might be he was following a\\nnatural proclivity. It might be that he wanted to take\\na wax impression of it so as to make a duplicate that\\nthey would have easy access for murder or criminal pur-\\nposes, or it might have been accounted for upon the\\ngeneral rule that, criminals always do something so low,\\nfoolish and unaccountable on any reasonable hypothesis\\nthey are thereby often detected.\\nIt is now only fair to assume that on this evening of\\nJuly 13, 1886, Bugby, Ball, Craige, Fiske, Heighton,\\nHart, Sprague and others of the conspiracy soon\\nassembled to devise a plot to effectually, once and for-\\never get rid of the victim and that they agreed that if\\nhe was not killed their plans and attempts already had\\nto kill him or send him to an asylum would become\\nknown to the people, also their motive, for the same\\nwould become known, and then, notwithstanding their\\nmoney, their power with the people would be lost.\\nNow, by reason of their especial qualifications for such\\nbusiness, they undoubtedly soon agreed that the victim\\nmust be killed by poison administered by Jezebel who\\ncould most secretly and effectually, and without sus-\\npicion thereafter, adminster the same. And as these\\nnondescript villains plotted away the life of one who\\nhad never done them harm, and to whom they were all", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 47\\nprofusely expressing their kindness and friendship, and\\nwere especially showing this to the public, to work off\\nsuspicion when the murder was done, is it any wonder\\nthat it is said that truth is stronger than fiction Before\\nJezebel had returned on this morning from her night s\\ndebauchery, the victim had been to breakfast at old lady\\nBeamer s.\\nHe went there because he was sure of being poisoned\\nin some way and he feared it was in the food in\\nhis home. It was now about 10 o clock on the 14th\\ninst. and the victim was sitting in the hallway trying\\nto evolve some plan to avoid the impending peril of his\\nlife. He had not been meditating but a short time\\nwhen young Thomas B. Gibson, a drug clerk from\\nZimmerman s store, where Dr. Strong had his head-\\nquarters, came up the stairs and went to the office door\\nof Dentist Dick. There they reached out their hands\\nand something was given by Gibson to Dick. The\\nvictim saw this. It was the poison which was subse-\\nquently given by Dick to Jezebel to administer to the\\nvictim. The clerk and dentist saw the victim looking\\nat them, and to ward off his suspicion of their guilt,\\nbegan talking in a blind mumbling manner, so that\\nwhat was said could not be understood.\\nAfter the clerk left, the victim went out to\\nthe rear of the house, and as he was returning Mr.\\nDick was seen by him swiftly skipping away from\\nthe door where Jezebel was. He went in and\\nenquired what Dick had been there for. She\\ndenied that Dick had been there at all, and im-\\nmediately began to assume a cry and said a few times,\\nI am afraid something is going to happen. The\\nvictim never let on that he noticed her, but was fully\\nalive to the fact that Dick had left her the poison and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nthat she would try to poison him; also, that her\\nassumed cry was no compunction of conscience, but\\nrather fear that in some way the poison would miss the\\nmark and they Avould all be exposed. He was further\\naware that lying and crying are characteristic of a siren\\nwhen troubled, and particularly when about to do some\\ndesperate act.\\nThe victim now again sat down in the hall to smoke,\\nwatch, and defeat if possible the attempt to poison him,\\nthat he knew sooner or later would be made by her.\\nShe knew it was his usual custom to take a sip of water\\nafter smoking. He had now smoked a few times, and\\nafter such smoke he had gone to the hydrant in the bath\\nroom adjoining the kitchen, and there hung a small\\ndipper in which he drew the water to drink, but as a\\nmatter of precaution, he let the hydrant run and then\\nrinsed the dipper each time before he drank. But the\\nlast time he drank from the dipper he did not rinse it\\nbefore using; he had drank from it two or three times\\nwithout harm, and he thought he might be over-\\ncautious and would run the gauntlet of drinking by just\\nletting it drain, so he turned it sidewise and a little fluid\\nnow ran out which he took to be water. When he had\\ndrank, he walked out into the next room a few steps,\\nand the sparks began to fly out of his eyes, which\\nseemed to look like quick, bright sparks of electricity.\\nIt was something like the first rays of an electric light\\nhe saw.\\nHe then felt like standing and rather stared into\\nvacancy for a few seconds then he began to have a\\nburning sensation in his breast and stomach and grip-\\ning, tightening pains in his breast and lungs. He knew\\nthat he had just been poisoned from the dipper. She\\nhad been out and in this room while he was smoking,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 49\\nand no other person was in the house. He immediately\\naccused her of poisoning him in the way already\\npointed out.- He especially told her that Dr, Strong\\nhad prepared the poison for v the clerk to bring up stairs\\nto the dentist.\\nJezebel now assumed another cry and wanted him to\\nlie down on the couch. He wanted her to go out and\\nget a doctor and a stomach pump but she didn t want\\nto go out. The fact is, she expected he would soon go\\ninto convulsions and die, she wanted to keep him from\\nbeing seen by the public so that he would say nothing\\nas to who, how or why he was poisoned. Then it would\\nbe easy to make it appear as a case of suicide by the\\nclerk, Dick, Dr. Strong, and others of the combine. To\\nhelp this theory along they had the insanity affidavit of\\nthe District Attorney, and all in all it would have been\\nvery little trouble to have buried the villainy of their\\nguilt in the grave with their victim.\\nUpon her refusal to go for help he lost no time in\\nstarting to find some kind of antidote, and she followed\\nhim to the head of the stairs begging him to come back\\nand not to go out on the street. As the victim arrived\\nat the foot of the stairs he met a poor young lawyer,\\nHudson Grant, who seemed to know of the poisoning\\nby saying to the victim, You had better go home and\\nlie down. But how could he know this? Easily\\nenough. As soon as the poison was taken, Jezebel, not\\nknowing the dipper had been drained, signaled from the\\nwindow to the watchers on the street, and Grant, a pre-\\nvious suitor for the hand of beautiful Vic, and now\\ndefending her father for murder, was sent by General-\\nissimo to make a preliminary investigation, and he in\\nturn signaled for the chief to come, which he did in a\\ngreat hurry from the defense of the murder trial to pro^", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ntect Jezebel and see that no cog slipped in the plot.\\nWe digress here to say that as soon as the combine\\nelected Judge Garoutte to the Supreme Court, they\\nrewarded young Grant by electing him Superior Judge\\nin the place vacated by Garoutte.\\nAs soon as the victim arrived at the bottom of the\\nstairs after he had been poisoned, there at the bank\\ncorner were about a half dozen of the thugs and secret\\nwatchers of the combine, who of course had just been\\nutilized to get Grant and Beast Ball to his office next to\\nthe victim s flat. Three doors from there on the same\\nside of the street sat Dr. Strong in front of the drug store\\nfrom which the poison came. Thus he was in close\\nproximity for the combine s use, and as the victim\\npassed him, he did not speak as usual, but cast a leering\\nlook in an anxious, enquiring manner, as much as to\\nsay, I know you have got the dose of poison which I\\nfixed for you but why are you out here on the street?\\nWhy didn t you lie down, go into convulsions, and\\ndie? I would have sworn, if necessary, that I saw\\nyou come into this drug store and steal the poison.\\nThe victim went to the office of five or six doctors\\nwhom he knew, but they were all out of town or could\\nnot be found. This was the case with all persons whom\\nhe counted as true friends. The Jesuit Catholic priest,\\nJohn McGinty, was in the bunch and knew of the com-\\nbine, which was a strong money supporter of his church.\\nSingular, what coincidences; all absent on this poison\\nday, but most of them showed up in the afternoon when\\nit was surely known that the poison plot had failed.\\nHe was now feeling comparatively all right, and was\\nsatisfied that when he drained the dipper the most of\\nthe poison ran out and he only got a little of it, just\\nenough to make him know that he was poisoned. So", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 51\\nhe thought he would try to get some evidence on Dr.\\nStrong and applied to him for an antidote, which the\\ndoctor gave him in the smallest kind of vial, with some\\nwhite looking fluid in it, and the doctor urged him to\\ngo right home and take it and lie down. He went\\nhome, but of course did not take it, but intended to\\nhave it analyzed at some future time and gave it to one\\nGuy St. Louis to keep for him, but could never get it\\nback. He happened to give it to St. Louis on the\\nevening of the poison day, when he went there to get his\\nsupper, for he did not eat at home for the next two\\ndays, the reasons of course were to avoid being poisoned.\\nThe fact that the victim claimed to have been poisoned\\nby the combine as shown was now coming to be known\\nby quite a few people, and in the meantime he had\\nmade up his mind that he could beat the poison game\\nby only eating from the same kind of food that she ate.\\nAnd he told his spouse that the next morning, the 17th,\\nhe would breakfast at home. In the morning, when\\nthe breakfast was almost ready to be served, a Mrs.\\nHevel, the wife of a wealthy rancher, came in. She\\nwas state and portly, with raven black hair, eyes deep\\nset, black, piercing and as unfathomable as the Dark\\nAges.\\nHer husband a few days before had fired five\\nshots at a man on account of jealousy. The moment\\nthis woman entered, he knew that Jezebel and this com-\\nbine had conspired another plot to poison him. And\\nthe Hevel, or Devil, woman had been brought to the\\nscene of action as a witness to prove his suicide in case\\nthey succeeded in murdering him. Mrs. H. was invited\\nto breakfast, but of course declined. When Jezebel\\npoured the coffee, the victim noticed an unusual twitch-\\ning of the muscles under the right eye. She was trying", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nto appear cool and collected, and under the necessary\\nstrain on the nerves in such a case, she thus, though in\\na slight way only, showed her agitation. The poison\\nwas in the coffee, and he then knew it almost as well as\\nshe did.\\nAlthough she was a great coffee drinker, this\\nmorning she did not drink any, but only pretended to\\nsip a little with a spoon. He ate a light breakfast with-\\nout tasting the coffee, and went out, and in a very few\\nminutes returned with a bottle to preserve some of the\\ncoffee for analyzation, but it was gone. She had\\nemptied it all in the wash bowl hydrant and was still\\neating at the table. As soon as he mentioned coffee,\\nshe, ran to the hydrant, turned on the water and washed\\nall the coffee grounds away into the waste pipe. Before\\nthis the coffee grounds were put into a bucket used for\\nsuch purpose. And so this poison plot failed also the\\nvictim s chance to analyze the coffee.\\nMurder plots were now in order and were coming as\\nfast as three a day, the details of the second one on this\\nHevel day are briefly told as follows The victim was\\nin the habit, at this stage of the private war, of lying\\ndown in the afternoon and taking a little sleep. That\\nafternoon he was lying there on the couch, but for some\\nunaccountable reason he could not sleep. Jezebel was\\nin the adjoining room sewing on a machine and sitting\\nfacing the hall and door which was open and was\\ndirectly in front of the door leading to old man Hunt s\\nroom, to which it will be remembered she had the keys\\nin his absence. She would occasionally look in the\\ndirection of Hunt s door, and at one of these times the\\nvictim saw her shaking her head as if indicating No.\\nThen she looked toward the couch where the victim\\nlay and saw him watching her. She arose and shut", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 53\\nthe hall door through which he was looking, and\\nalmost at once he heard footsteps in the hall at about\\nHunt s door: he jumped up and went to the door of\\nhis room looking into the hall and saw a strange des-\\nperate looking man sneaking down the stairs. He\\nlooked back at the victim and then hurried down.\\nThis man was a pal of Craige s before and after this\\ntime. His name was Thomas Conroy.\\nThe brief summing up of these facts are: Jezebel\\nunlocked the door to Hunt s room, at the dictation of\\nthe conspiracy, and let the murderer in, and when the\\nvictim went to sleep she was to inform the assassin and\\nthen go out to the store for some article and after the\\nassassin had come in and cut the victim s throat, the\\nknife was to be dropped by his right hand so as to show\\nhe had committed suicide then, the assassin was to go\\ndown the back stairs and leave the country. Jezebel\\nwould have been advised by the watchers when to\\nreturn and found the job completed, and by the con-\\nspiracy controlling everything, the victim would have\\nbeen buried as a suicide and the evidence of their crimes\\nwould have gone to the grave with him.\\nNow comes the third plot to murder the victim on this\\nday. He of course was now watchful and vigilant, and,\\nby being so, detected a plan to carry him off to the\\nSacramento river that night to drown him, and then\\nhave it appear that he was crazy, wandered there and\\ndestroyed himself. To aid in this transportation,\\nGeneralissimo bought about fifty feet of new half inch\\nrope and had it in readiness for use at his office that\\nevening. The victim was to be tied with this and taken\\ndown the back stairs of his flat to the rear; and if\\nGeneralissimo was to make a defense about this rope,\\nhe would neither deny it in to-to, or plead it was pur-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nchased for some legitimate use. So the victim being\\ncognizant of this plan, knew that his life was now in\\nthe most imminent danger. Being boycotted and\\nimpoverished by this combine until he did not have a\\ndollar nor a gun to help or protect himself with, his\\ncondition was certainly very unenviable. His case was\\none of murderers to the right of him, murderers to the\\nleft of him, and murderers in the house with him, and\\nall around him. Believing that the jail would best serve\\nsuch refuge from destruction that night he started to go\\nthere by a round about way down the back street so as\\nnot to be seen by the assassins. When he was in front\\nof the Craft Hotel, just before turning off the Main street,\\nMr. A. C. Turner, the proprietor, was standing in the\\nhotel doorway, and he spoke and said: Why, hello\\nSullivan, how do you do? Where are you going?\\nThe victim replied, Oh, nowhere much, and\\nturned and went around the corner without stopping at\\nall. When around the corner on College Street, Mr.\\nTurner, who had gone through his hotel and come out\\nat the side door, again hailed the victim and asked him\\nwhere he was going. The victim then told him that he\\nwas going to the jail. Mr. Turner said, See here, you\\nmust not go that way there is danger! You know\\nI would not say that unless it were true. The victim\\nsaid, How do you know? He replied, Do you see\\nthat man standing on there. He is hired to kll you.\\nHe told me so, and said that there was big money in it.\\nAnd you know that they are after you trying to kill\\nyou. The victim said, yes; that he knew all that,\\nand that fellow s name was Quinlin. He had been\\nwatching and leering at him when he went out to St.\\nLouis to eat and followed him there. If he did not go\\nto the jail he would not be alive the next day. Mr.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 55\\nTurner then said, Come and go back down the street,\\nfor you will be killed if you go that way.\\nSo the victim turned back and went to the jail the\\nway Mr. Turner suggested and told the officers and\\nsheriff at the jail that they were trying to kill him, and\\nthat he had come there to sleep for safety that night.\\nA very pertinent question may now be asked. Why\\ndid not this sheriff arrest the victim then and keep him\\nin jail as an insane man? He had the papers and\\nSprague s affidavit heretofore noted, charging him with\\nbeing crazy. The victim was then, and ever since has\\nbeen crazy, or else his statement was true. The fact is,\\nthis sheriff was one of the would-be murderers, but\\nwithout orders from Generalissimo he dare not act, and\\nthey did not then want to arrest him, but to have him\\nturned loose, for they had him without a pistol or any\\nmeans of defense and were sure of being able to kill\\nhim. These statements of Mr. Turner s were after-\\nwards repeated in substance by him in the presence of\\ntwo others.\\nThere was a barber at Woodland at this time by the\\nname of Henry Matthews, who had always shaved the\\nvictim since he came to live at Woodland. During this\\nsecret war, just before the murder episode about to be\\nrelated, Craige and the barber were seen in close, earnest\\ntalk on the streets at night. Craige never went there to\\nbe shaved.\\nQuite a long time before this, the victim had heard\\nthe barber relate a story about one who in Kansas,\\nwhere he came from, had for revenge cut a man s ear\\noff while being shaved, and when arrested swore the\\nrazor slipped and that it was an accident, and thus\\nevaded legal punishment. Now, from talk which the\\nvictim had with the barber he was satisfied that he", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwould do any such similar crime for money, and\\nespecially when he had money and influential persons\\nto back him.\\nSo, it was on the 16th of July, 1886, a day out of\\norder here, that the victim went to this barber shop to\\nbe shaved, and as he went into the shop, the barber s\\nhelper was standing by his chair waiting for a customer,\\nand Matthews was sitting down honing a razor. As the\\nvictim entered the shop, Matthews was noticed to flush\\nin the face and jumped up, and as the victim was about\\nto be seated in the chair for the helper to shave him\\nMatthews said, I ll shave him. The helper immedi-\\nately left the shop by the back door and as he was going\\nout he motioned by a longing look with his eyes and\\ndrawing his hand and finger across his neck to the victim\\nto leave.\\nThe victim lost no time in putting all of these signs\\nand facts together and jumped out of the barber chair\\nand said I ll not be shaved now. Matthews stood\\nand looked dumbfounded, but never uttered a word.\\nThe victim was on his guard and knew all these parties\\nwere participating in this life and death struggle, and\\nsays there is not a shadow of doubt but that if he had\\nlet Matthews begin to shave him that day his throat\\nwould have been cut, and the barber would have sworn\\nthat the razor slipped, or that the victim grabbed the\\nrazor, and cut his own throat, and with the District\\nAttorney s insanity affidavit, and none to prosecute but\\nall to suppress, a case of suicide or accident would have\\nbeen made out and the true story never would have been\\ntold.\\nAfter arriving home on this morning of the 18th inst,\\nthe victim admonished Jezebel in all the ways and with\\nall the words that he thought might have any effect", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 57\\nupon her not to be a party any further with this\\ncriminal combination. He especially pointed out to\\nher that unless she and they desisted all would event-\\nually be detected and exposed to the whole world, and\\nif that was done the whole bunch would be paralyzed\\nand in a measure ruined forever. He further told her\\nthat she might take all they had and go wherever and\\nwith whomever she chose.\\nShe replied that she would never admit her own guilt,\\nthat before she would do so, she would hang by the\\nneck until she was dead; that she knew enough to make\\nsomebody put his foot into the mud as far as she had\\nput her s into the mire before she did anything wrong,\\nand then they would have to protect her to protect them-\\nselves. Then she became vehemently animated and\\nsaid, You bet your life Mr. Ball is a good man and\\ntrue blue, and he is too smart to acknowledge his\\ninfamy. Besides he has plenty of money and backers.\\nIt was now an absolute certainty and fixed fact in the\\nvictim s mind that do all he could the persecutors could\\nnot be induced to desist, for the reason they felt certain\\nof being able to accomplish his secret murder in such a\\nmanner as to make it appear he had committed suicide,\\nto a not over anxious public. He was equally certain\\nthat he would in some way evade their designs though\\nhe knew not just how. He was also certain that they\\nrelied on Jezebel to assist them materially by giving\\nthem advice about his intentions, as he never lied to\\nher; but here is where they were fooled. He told her\\nonly such things as he wanted them to know, such as\\nwould conserve his own interest and welfare, and such\\nas he could use in the future to dovetail this combi-\\nnation of facts together. He played their own game on\\nthem.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nIt was now about noon of July 18, 1886, and Jezebel\\nwas preparing to go to Sacramento that afternoon, and\\nshe had expressed a very anxious desire that the victim\\nshould take a bath, put on clean clothes and then lie\\ndown and have a sleep. She was then extremely\\nsolicitous for his cleanly and restful welfare, much more\\nso than on the previous night when he had to sleep in\\nthe jail or be murdered. The wonder is that this\\nschooled criminal was silly enough to make such a self\\nconvicting and horrible request, but crime is always\\nlame in some of its perambulations, and so it can be\\naccounted for in that way.\\nAfter this, it happened that they were going up the\\nstairs over the bank at the same time, and at the foot of\\nthe stairs on the sidewalk near the bank window there\\nstood a big burly negro, who wore a blue flannel shirt,\\nwith breast open and collar turned down, without coat\\nor vest He was certainly the prince of dragons. As\\nthe victim passed him, he looked a wild, savage look\\nand said, I am the fellow that can do a man up in\\ngood shape. As he made this remark, he looked\\nsignificantly at Jezebel. Of course, even a crazy man\\ncould see that this negro was a new assasin brought to\\nthe front, and that her bath and clean clothes request\\nwas for the purpose of having the intended corpse in\\ngood shape, that she might claim that he was well kept\\nwhile with her. This is the true theory.\\nThe victim s house was easy of access by front and\\nrear stairways, and after Jezebel went to Sacramento\\nCity he went out on the streets, because he dare not\\nremain in the house, and as for the business at his\\noffice that was boycotted and broken up until he had\\nnone. He was now on the streets, and the assasins\\nwere all on the alert to murder him, and thus earn the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 59\\nconspiring blood boodle. The negro was leering and\\nstaring at him, with the look of a demon thirsting for\\nblood. Quinlin was peering after and following him,\\nthough with the ostensible appearance that such was not\\nthe case.\\nTom Conroy was at Powers corner trying to get a\\nsneak shot at him while he was passing. Rudolph and\\nanother man were on the move with an air of waiting\\nfor something, and Charles Brown, who had killed\\nJack Stewart with a knife at Knight s Landing in Yolo\\nCounty, in 1872, was rustling around apparently carry-\\ning orders from the conspirators in the Opera House to\\nthese other assassins on the street. So after the victim\\nhad made the foregoing observations, he went into the\\nOpera House where the murder trial was in progress to\\nsee if something would not develop in his behalf.\\nBrown, Conroy, and the negro followed him in. The\\nvictim thought he would go out and thus see if these\\nassassins would follow him out, and sure enough they\\ndid, but he was very careful not to let them get very\\nnear him. He now went up the street toward home,\\nand Brown followed after him with his right hand most\\nof the time in his hip pocket, and he went over on the\\ncorner by Linder s store and watched the vicim as he\\nwent upstairs home.\\nThe victim remained only a few moments for the fear\\nalready stated, and returned down stairs where he saw\\nJohn D. Stephens drive up to his bank. The victim\\nwent over to Stephens and shook hands with him, and\\nwhile doing so, Stephens hand trembled like an aspen\\nleaf. The victim looked at him and saw that he was\\nunnaturally white about the furrows of his face, and\\nshowed much sign of excitement. The victim then\\nspoke and said, John D., why in the name of God", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ndon t you stop this intended murder of me. I know\\nyou know about it, and have the power to stop it by a\\nsingle word. Stephens evaded a direct reply and said,\\nWe are all after the almighty dollar. Judge Arm-\\nstrong has told me about you. But\\nHere was a millionaire with a cur of a son-in-law who\\nhad children of whom the millionaire was the grand-\\nfather. His son-in-law was the libertine already pointed\\nout, and it would be only practical human nature for\\nhim to protect his own household. So in quickly carry-\\ning out this natural inclination in this respect he evaded\\nthe question of murder and commenced to talk about\\nmoney and Judge Armstrong, who was one of the con-\\nspirators from Sacramento City, and a law partner of\\nAdd. C. Hinkson of the same place, and friends of the\\nmillionaire for his money. Here is a horrible crime of\\nwhich the millionaire is shown to have had and did\\nhave a guilty knowledge; and he enjoying the sunlight\\nof heaven on this beautiful day, blessed with health,\\nstrength, and money, claiming to be the friend of a\\nman who, he knows, is about to be murdered, is it any\\nwonder that he trembles when confronted by the victim?\\nAfter talking a while the victim left the millionaire\\nand was walking on Main Street. He noticed that Gas\\nHunt, a native of North Carolina and a friend of this\\ncombination, was on the street driving a spirited horse\\nattached to a piano box bnggy, and that he drove\\naround apparently for pleasure, but that he was always\\nto be seen close to the victim, with his eyes flaring and\\nsnapping until one would almost think that they would\\ncrack. Just hold him in mind he will soon be referred\\nto again. The victim had just come from the Opera\\nHouse, where Brown and Conroy had followed him in\\nand out again, and was now in front of Simpson s saloon", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "0 KJ\\\\ j\\\\.\\nno-pwon\\no-o o 2 o\\n9 If O 5 A\\n0)\\nI Z\u00c2\u00abQO\\ni?\\nAll\\nCN\\n0\\n-V\\nCoMege Street\\nrvr\\nX\\nJL\\\\\\nOJ\\no\\n4", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\non the sidewalk, walking north. The active assassins\\nwere stationed for duty at the most available points of\\nattack, so as to prevent his escape in case of their failure\\nto murder him at the first attempt. They were\\ndeployed as follows and as shown on the accompanying\\ndiagram.\\nThe negro was at Siesenvine s store west of the victim\\non the same side of the street. Conroy was east of him\\non the same side of the street at the corner of Powers\\nsaloon. Quinlin was south of him on the opposite side\\nof the street. This same Gas Hunt was opposite him\\nwith his horse and buggy driving slowly the same way\\nthe victim was going. R. H. Spaulding, Harlan s son-\\nin-law, was on the same side of the street, about ten feet\\nbehind the victim. Rudolph and a stranger were in\\ncompany with Spaulding. He was surrounded by the\\nassassins, and handicapped by the insanity papers in\\nthe hand of the sheriff, so that if he sounded any great\\nalarm, he could be immediately arrested as a crazy man\\nbesides being boycotted so that he could not get any\\nweapon of defense. He was certainly in a tight, trying\\nplace for a single individual supposed to be living\\nunder the protection of the law in this God given\\ncountry.\\nWhile the victim was surrounded as last described,\\nSpaulding, Rudolph, and the stranger came sneaking up\\nbehind him and when they were within about seven feet\\nof him, Spaulding said to Rudolph, Now is your time;\\ngo for him! Kill him!! Rudolph and the stranger\\ninstantly started on a rush for the victim. Rudolph\\nwhipped out a large knife from the inside of his vest,\\nwhich the victim then thought was the largest instru-\\nment of eath that he ever saw. This all took place in\\nabout a minute s time.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 63\\nAt the first glare of the knife, the victim as quick as a\\nred squirrel jumped away into the street behind Gas\\nHunt s buggy, which had now stopped, and like a streak\\nof lightning ran across the street and came in way below\\nand east of Quinlin. The assassins and Hunt stood still\\nfor a few seconds, glaring at the victim on the opposite\\nside of the street, and then they all went up to the\\nSpaulding Bros. grocery store; and thus ended the\\nmurder attempt that time.\\nGeneralissimo and his band of murderers were again\\ndefeated. Their Waterloo was every time repeated yet\\nthey conspired and fought like so many demons.\\nNearly a year and a half after this, the victim and Gas\\nHunt met on a ferry boat crossing at San Francisco, and\\nthey conversed about this, and Hunt, thinking it was all\\nover, told the victim he thought then that the victim\\nwas wrong and ought to be killed, and had his buggy\\nthere in which the assassins could escape, but since that\\ntime he had changed his mind.\\nAt the time the victim first turned his head to look\\nback, when Spaulding spoke his first words to Rudolph,\\nhe saw John Driscoll and Robert Sears, two bar-keepers,\\nrunning across the street in their shirt sleeves to the\\nplace where he was.\\nA long time after the smoke of this secret war had\\nsubsided, the victim was gleaning for evidence to rivet\\ndown the coffin lids of these conspirators he said to\\nDriscoll, Now, the attempt of this Woodland gang to\\nmurder me has failed and it s all over, and isn t it a\\nfact that you and Sears came across the street that day\\nthat Spaulding and Rudolph were after me, so as to be\\nwitnesses for the gang? He said, Yes, Sullivan,\\nthat s so. Did they not agree to pay you to sweai\\nthat I committed suicide or was the first aggressor,", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwhichever way they might want you to? Driscoll said,\\nYes, that is about the size of it, but they will never get\\nme again. That Craige is a bilk. He gets the money\\nand then gives you jumbo promises.\\nThe victim never questioned Sears about this because\\nhe knew the truth was substantially as Driscoll had told\\nit; besides, Sears subsequently sympathized with him\\nand furnished him with much valuable information\\nabout the combine, and Jezebel being out nights with\\nHeigh ton, Ball, Craige, and others, in the oyster cafe\\nand in this beautiful court yard.\\nIn about six weeks after Rudolph attempted to\\nmurder the victim, he was found dead in Sheriff\\nBeamer s grove. Whether he suicided from remorse or\\nwas killed by the conspiracy will probably never be\\nknown to the general public. But from what is seen\\nhere it is proper to say that Rudolph was after the com-\\nbine for his pay in attempting to kill the victim, and\\nthey, rather than pay him, killed him and thus saved\\ntheir money and prevented Rudolph from exposing\\nthem. While no pity can be given him, yet he should\\nnot have been murdered, and who can tell but that\\nthis exposure may result in the punishment of his\\nslayers. There are good, respectable people at Wood-\\nland. They are in the majority in numbers. Dead\\nmen tell no tales was the rule of conduct adopted by\\nthese criminals.\\nAs soon as the Spaulding murder company were away\\nas stated, the victim went back to the same side of the\\nstreet from the place where he had just run. The\\nassassin Conroy was still at his post, and so to get by\\nhim without danger, the victim having seen Professor\\nElton of the Hesperin College in his brother s drug\\nstore, went in and asked the professor to walk with him", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 65\\ndown to the corner, and after they got there, the victim\\nsaid, Professor, some time I will tell you why I asked\\nyou to walk with me, but I dare not do so now. The\\nvictim was as good as his word, he told the professor,\\nbut it was no use then. The professor knew too much\\nabout it, although he had no guilty knowledge. He\\nmust keep still or lose his professorship at the college,\\nthis combine controlling the schools, politics, and all\\nkinds of business. It was a man s ruin or death to\\nantagonize them, or any of them, for they were all like\\na nest of hornets or vipers.\\nThe victim then went into the Opera House and the\\nCourt was about to adjourn. After the court had\\nadjourned the victim went to Sheriff Beamer and told\\nhim all about how he had just been attacked by the\\nassassins, and said he wanted the protection of the\\nSheriff s office, or a six-shooter, and if he would let him\\nhave one he would ask no protection, but take care of\\nhimself. He also informed the Sheriff how the con-\\nspirators had boycotted him until he could neither beg,\\nborrow, nor buy any kind of fire arms. Then the\\nsheriff and he left the Opera House together and he\\nimmediately saw the assassins Conroy, Quinlin, and\\nthe negro and pointed them out to the sheriff. About\\nthis time Craige came near and commenced a sarcastic\\ngrin, and the victim then resolved anew that at some\\ntime the laugh would be on the other side.\\nHe was now comparatively safe for the assassins\\nknew he was with the sheriff for protection, and for\\nhim to be murdered under the sheriff s protection, and\\nunder all the circumstances, would be social and politi-\\ncal murder of the sheriff, a condition of affairs they\\ncould not afford, because they could not allow such a\\nuseful tool to be destroyed. Question Why did not", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nthe sheriff arrest either the alleged insane man, or the\\nalleged assassins at that time? He had the papers for\\nthe alleged insane man s commitment, why not arrest\\nhim? He must be crazy or else these assassins had\\ntried to murder him. The true answer is that to have\\narrested the victim would have saved his life and the\\nconspiracy wanted to kill him, and the sheriff was\\nsimply obeying the orders of Generalissimo and com-\\npany.\\nCan the human mind grasp the disgrace that this\\nband of conspirators has brought on American civili-\\nzation? Will the decent people of the little city of\\nWoodland look upon the situation as it really was for a\\nmoment and see that at the very time these assassins\\nwere on the street trying to do bloody murder for money\\nalone, and the money that was paying them came from\\none who was then sitting at the people s bar of justice\\nbeing tried for his life, for having premeditatedly\\nmurdered one of the most honorable and honored sons of\\nthe Golden West, and sent him in his early youth to\\nhis Creator, the slayer knowing that his extreme wealth\\nwould make a successful defense for him; and this\\nsame person now on trial for his life, trying to add\\nanother sneak murder to his criminal record, by the\\nuse of his money; prompted thereto by false friends,\\nfalse affidavits, a villainous court, a perjured District\\nAttorney, and a gang of lawyers and others, coated and\\nseared with nearly every crime known to the criminal\\ncategory. Can these outlaws be seen as they are, going\\nthrough the farce of trying and acquitting one murderer\\nand at the same time committing another murder?\\nCan the mind conceive or the pen portray the intrinsic\\nwickedness of this criminal combination, making a\\nmockery of justice and law by the farce of a trial for the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 67\\nmurder of young Craft, and at the same time attempting\\nby the use of all treachery and money to murder another\\ninnocent man to hide the evidence of their own lust and\\nsins? Is it supposable, that if this gang were relegated\\nto perdition, would not the devil have scruples about\\ndisgracing the realms of his satanic kingdom with such\\ntraitorous beings? And would he not be fearful that\\nthey there, as here, would intrigue, conspire, and\\ndethrone him, and even attempt to murder him?\\nThe victim had gone over to the Court House jail with\\nthe sheriff, and when Jezebel returned from Sacramento\\nCity that evening this man Hinkson came over with\\nher, she having been at his office and the Clunie build-\\ning with him that afternoon. Hinkson came over to\\nthe victim s refuge about eight o clock, and seemed to\\nknow all about the murder attempt that afternoon\\nbefore the victim said anything about it. The fact is\\nhe knew all about it even before Jezebel went over to\\nhis office, and had now heard of its failure and came\\nover to assist in organizing another murder scheme\\nwhich will soon develop.\\nIt might be stated here that Jezebel went to Sacra-\\nmento to see him; also to give the assassins a better\\nchance and to prove an alibi for herself. She was the\\nshrewdest conspirator in the whole bunch, and shrewd\\nenough not to tell them anything about her previous\\ncriminal and generally bad record. Well, they now\\nleft the court house and went over to the flat, and the\\ndisappointment of this twain was easily seen. This was\\nparticularly noticed by the blarney they attempted to\\ngive him when discussing the murder attempt of the\\nafternoon. They brought over the proclamation of\\nGovernor Stoneman, calling an extra session of the", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nlegislature to convene the 20th inst. at Sacramento City\\ntwenty-eight miles from Woodland by rail.\\nThe victim was the enrolling clerk of the Senate at\\nthe last regular session of the legislature. They both\\nurged him to go over and assume the duties of this office.\\nHe told them his office was not a hold-over office, and,\\nbesides, this being an extra session, there would\\nprobably not be any enrolling clerk elected. In this\\nhe was giving them their own medicine of duplicity, for\\nhe intended to go over and get the office if possible,\\nwhich was worth $240 a month.\\nBut he knew that if they thought there was any\\nchance for him to get it, the conspirators had power\\nenough to, and would defeat him for they would know\\nthat if he got this office he would have money and a\\npistol and their conspiracy jig would be up. He was\\nalso thoroughly well aware that the desire to have him\\ngo over to Sacramento was so the conspiracy could get\\na new battle field for their private war, as they were\\nnow getting very uneasy about their exposure on\\naccount of so many recent failures, and they were par-\\nticularly desirous of transferring the field of action to\\nsome other place than Woodland.\\nOn the afternoon of the 19th inst, everything being\\nplanned and set in order for his assassination on the\\nfollowing day, as he was going over to the legislature,\\nHinkson left his murder friends and went home to\\nSacramento City. The next morning the victim left\\nWoodland on the six o clock train, and by force of\\nreasoning from established facts, he knew they were\\ngoing to make another attempt to murder him that day.\\nBut where, when or how, of course, he could not tell\\nuntil something more had developed in that regard.\\nPreyious to leaving his home that morning, the victim", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. -69\\nhad noticed a cigarette fiend passing and repassing his\\nhome and glaring up at the windows as if to get a sign.\\nThis was a newly .hired assassin, and by his dude, gam-\\nbler, cut-throat style, it was very easy to spot him.\\nWhen the victim was ready to go to Sacramento the hotel\\nbuss was gone, so he took a seat in the express wagon,\\nand immediately the dude assassin came forward and\\nsat on the other side by the driver. As they passed\\nthe corner, he looked back and there saw Jezebel at\\nthe window taking what she supposed was a last look\\nat the one she had conspired to kill. But her real\\nanxiety was to see that he had gone rather than to get\\na last look at him.\\nOn arriving at the depot, conscientious Fiske was\\nthere noticed moving sneakingly about as though he\\nwanted to steal something from the platform of the\\ndepot without being caught at it. He is a very con-\\nscientious gentleman and goes toddling along to church\\nevery Sunday morning with his book under his arm,\\nwith conscience oozing out of every pore of his hide.\\nHe is so very conscientious that when being examined\\nas a juror in the Harlan case he said his conscience\\nwould not let him do justice he was so prejudiced\\nagainst the murdered man. This was a great bluff to\\ningratiate himself into the favor of the millionaire\\nfor gain. He was so conscientious that he tried\\nto get the victim to drink liquor, as he used to do years\\nbefore this time, so he might get drunk and get killed.\\nYes, he had a great conscience; the same as that of a\\nhyena digging up the corpse from a newly made grave.\\nAlong with Fiske were two noted thugs of the town,\\nHenry Skinner, a native of Vermont, and Henry\\nWallace. This last fellow s eyes resembled the isinglass\\nin coal stove when the gas is burning off. They snapped", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nand sparkled and presented a red, black and blue color\\nstreaked up and down. The corners of his mouth would\\ndraw down and close and his under jaw would protrude.\\nSuch was the general appearance at all times when seen\\nthat day. He was the most intelligent and desperate\\nout of the whole lot of about thirty hired assassins\\nengaged in this private war. It will be understood the\\nreal conspirators stood high, claimed respectability, and\\nreally controlled the town and county, and of course\\ncould not personally strike the fatal blow.\\nThe train was a local affair with only two passenger\\ncars, and this morning the passengers were all in the\\nfront car. When the train was within a few minutes\\nof the Davisville Junction, the victim went back into\\nthe rear car and Wallace immediately followed him,\\nwhereupon, the victim started to return to the front car\\nand Wallace commenced to talk foolish, impudent\\nmatter for the purpose of keeping him in the car, so as\\nto get a chance to kill him just about the time the train\\nstopped at Davisville where, it was after wards known,\\nthe conspirators had a team ready for the assassins to\\nflee the country with, as soon as the murder was com-\\nmitted. It was their plot to kill the victim at this\\nsmall place early in the morning, and then the assassins\\ncould easily have escaped in a wagon. The judge,\\nsheriff, district attorney, and nearly all the county\\nofficers being in the conspiracy, there was really not\\nmuch of any danger to them. The real conspirators\\ncould prove an alibi or anything else they desired and\\nnothing would have been done. It was in a way a real\\nbright plot.\\nThe train stopped here at Davisville and it had to\\nback up and make a curve to go to Sacramento City.\\nNow, before it did this, three other and new assassins", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 71\\nmade their appearance. They were Frank Welch,\\nFrank Meyers, and Charles Grey. They had come\\ndown from Woodland that morning in the wagon, and\\nFiske was there with Harlan s blood boodle which the\\nassassins were to receive after the killing.\\nAt Davisville the victim stepped out on the platform\\nof the first car, and Grey immediately came sidling up,\\nto him from the railroad platform, with his right hand\\nin his short coat pocket, and from all the facts the\\nvictim thought it would be more conducive to his wel-\\nfare on the inside of the car among the passengers,\\nwhere he went, and Grey did not get a chance to earn\\nhis boodle.\\nThe train now commenced backing out to get on the\\ntrack for Sacramento. Fiske and Skinner were sitting\\nin the front of the car, the victim was in the extreme\\nrear of the car, and Wallace was in the front of the rear\\ncar. The train had moved but about two lengths of\\nitself when Wallace came out of his car onto the rear\\nplatform of the car where the victim was, and then he\\nkept motioning to Skinner and alternately looking at\\nhim and the victim. Skinner s attention was now\\nwanted, for the killing time had come.\\nThe train was slowly moving, the wagon ready to\\nrun the assassins off, and money bags was aboard to\\ndrop them their money as soon as the job was done.\\nBut Wallace could not get the attention of his pal at\\nthis opportune time. Skinner had either forgot the\\npart he was to play or his courage failed him. So\\nWallace run his hand into his hip pocket and whipped\\nout a revolver, and just at this time the victim jumped\\nin behind an old man and kept him in range between\\nWallace and himself. Wallace smiled a sickly murder-\\nous smile, for he instantly knew he was foiled and went", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nback to his car and remained there until the car arrived\\nat Sacramento City.\\nWelch, Meyers, and Grey followed over to Sacramento\\nCity with the team and they all remained two days\\ntrying to get a secret whack at the victim, and finally\\nthey returned to Woodland to be supported by poor,\\nfallen women. This band knew that the victim always\\nput up at the Western Hotel while in the city, so Wallace\\nand Skinner got into the hotel buss, supposing the\\nvictim would be fool enough to do likewise, and then\\nperchance they might get a chance at him. He thought\\nhe knew about how to work these thugs, and so acted as\\nthough he were to take the buss until it finally drove\\nto the hotel with them in and him out.\\nFiske hurried away to the office of Bugby to report\\nthe failure and communicate the defeat to General-\\nissimo at Woodland, who now deputized General Bugby\\nto take command of the brigands at Sacramento City.\\nThe attempted cunning of these conspirators will be\\nnoticed by their always trying to keep as far away as\\npossible from the scene of the intended murder, so if\\nnecessary, they could prove an alibi also, in case the\\nvictim did survive, anything he might say involving\\nthem would appear all the more impossible by reason\\nof their absence at such times and again, their pro-\\nfessed friendship would be a shield to them.\\nAt the Sacramento railroad depot, Tim Lee, an\\nacquaintance of the victim, was on duty as depot officer.\\nThey stepped to one side and the victim told him all\\nabout how the assassins had tried to kill him at Davis-\\nville, and he pointed them out to Lee as they were in\\nthe hotel buss. On account of the boldness of these\\nfellows, Mr. Lee was averse to believing it at first, and\\nsaid, Why, Sullivan, this can t be true; yet I know", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 73\\nyou well enough so that I must believe it. Mr. Lee\\nis a native of Albany, N. Y. and months after this time,\\nat different times,* he told the victim that his killing\\nstory was all true, and that it was an outrage, but that\\nnothing could be done against such a power.\\nAt the time the victim Avas ready to walk over into\\nthe city from the depot, he observed Mr. Audette, a\\nWoodland merchant, a respectable gentleman not in\\nwith the gang, and he requested him to walk with him,\\nknowing that if the assassins were met they would not\\ndare make the attack in the presence of such testimony\\nagainst them. This request was also made for the pur-\\npose of adding strength and authenticity to this story\\nfor it will be recalled the victim was noting all the facts\\nas they occurred, so that in case he lived he could write\\nthem all up for sale, etc. Wallace had now been over\\ninto the city and was returning for his lost victim, but\\non seeing him with Mr. Audette he dodged into a saloon\\nnext to the Saddle Rock Oyster House, on Second Street.\\nThey did not go by Wallace s retreat, but turned a\\ncorner and went to the Western Hotel and had break-\\nfast, and while at breakfast, the victim saw Skinner for\\nthe last time peering in through the hall window at\\nhim. Skinner was a green leek, one of the would be\\nterribles, and was now discharged as an assassin for his\\nfailure at Davisville. At this city there was a sensational\\ndaily published by the McClatchey Bros., called The\\nSacramento Bee. It was into this conspiracy, and in\\ntrying to further the murder plans it published an article\\nthat evening, singing the song of the old chestnut that\\nthe victim was as crazy as a bed bug, thus bending the\\npregnant hinges of the knee, etc.\\nFiske went from the office of Bugby to the Insurance\\noffice of Al. G. Hogland, a native of New Jersey, who", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwas immediately enlisted in the ranks of the assassins.\\nHogland was a large young man, probably weighing\\ntwo hundred pounds, with a round bullet-head, small,\\ndeep-set, squinty eyes, which were neither black, blue,\\ngray, not any other usual color. They were, more than\\nanything else, like the magnified eyes of a rattlesnake.\\nThe victim used to liken his fight for life with these\\nconspirators to the old saying of fighting the devil with\\nhis own fire for he made no open break with them but\\nfought with the same pretended friendship that they\\nwere using against him.\\nSo about nine o clock this morning he went to\\nHinkson s law office and sounded him, by telling all\\nabout the attempted murder at Davis ville that morning.\\nHinkson was true to his proclivities and criminal friends\\nat Woodland, and by far-fetched sophistry, tried to\\nargue that the victim was mistaken about this attempt.\\nWhile they were talking, Hogland came and posted\\nhimself at the foot of the stairs leading to Bugby s office,\\nwhich was nearly opposite Hinkson s office and there\\nremained watching the stairway, leading to the office of\\nHinkson, and the victim then and there pointed him\\nout to Hinkson as one of the newly hired assassins, but\\nsaid he dare not shoot unless he had the absolute drop,\\nfor all hired assassins were cowardly brutes.\\nNow when the victim was tired of unwinding the\\ntangled ball of Hinkson s infamy, he left the office and\\nwent out on the streets, which, in a sense, was alive\\nwith new assassins. He spotted thirteen of them.\\nThey would look and leer and follow him and try in\\nevery conceivable way to sneak up and get a secret\\nchance at him. They were nearly all of the Barbary\\nCoast element.\\nAfter a while the victim went over and sat down on", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 75\\nthe K Street porch of the Capitol Hotel. Presently\\nHogland came from the Golden Eagle Hotel on the\\nopposite side of the street, where he was seen looking\\nout of the window when the victim sat down, and in a\\nquick, sneaky kind of way he passed into the Capitol\\nHotel and was getting into position so as to be behind\\nthe victim and shoot him through the glass door. The\\nvictim turned around, facing him and Hogland slunk\\naway.\\nThere is no doubt that these pages would never have\\nbeen written if the victim had not turned as he did.\\nWallace, soon after this, attempted the same game and\\nwas foiled in about the same way. He then went and\\nsat in the cigar store of Emil Scheunert, adjoining the\\nhotel, and watched with desperation on his countenance\\nfor a chance to assassinate. Emil noticed Wallace and\\nothers there whispering around and afterwards said he\\nheard enough so that he knew they were trying to kill\\nthe victim, but that as a matter of business he kept his\\nmouth shut about it.\\nIt was now time to go to the State Capitol. The\\nofficers and clerks would be elected that afternoon. It\\nwill now be recalled that the victim told Jezebel and\\nHinkson at Woodland that there would not be any\\nenrolling clerk elected at this extra session, and after he\\ncame to Sacramento that day he had told Hinkson and\\nJudge Armstrong the same thing, and he made no\\napplication to any of the senators for the office until as\\nwill be seen further on. He was personally well and\\nfavorably known to each of the senators as their votes\\nwill soon show. If he had said anything to the senators\\nabout this office it might have become known to the\\nconspirators and their allies at Sacramento, and then\\nthey would have rallied and surely defeated him.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThe Senate was now in session and Senator Kellog\\nhad introduced a resolution, which passed, naming the\\nofficers and clerks to be elected, among which was that\\nof Enrolling Clerk. When it was about time to fill that\\noffice, the victim went to the desks of the Senators W.\\nH. Kellog, Ignacio Del Vallie, Pat Reddy and Clay W.\\nTaylor, and requested each to nominate him for the\\noffice, and they each promised to do so.\\nUnder other circumstances he would not have re-\\nquested so many to have nominated him, but now this\\noffice meant life or death to him, and he could not\\nafford to take any more chances in getting it than he\\nhad too. It meant money to protect himself with from\\nassassination. He must have it or be killed, and at the\\nsame time if these Senators had been worked on by the\\nconspirators, he never would have gotten it, so he was\\nin a very anxious place about this time. He believed\\nthen as now that the gods help those who help them-\\nselves, and he so acted.\\nSenator Taylor and Del Vallie both arose at the same\\ntime to make the nomination. The President of the\\nSenate recognized Senator Taylor who made the nomi-\\nnation, and the victim was then and there elected with-\\nout a dissenting vote. Wallace, Hogland and six other\\nthugs were present at the time of his election. He was\\nnow recognized by the whole people of the State through\\nthese senators, and stood in official importance the peer\\nof any of them. This was quite a raise for the con-\\nspirators alleged *crazy man. It rather knocked the\\nbottom out of the district attorney s insanity affidavit,\\nand the libel the Sacramento Bee published that\\nevening about him. The Senate must have been in a\\nvery humiliating position to have elected an enrolling\\nclerk personally known to all of them, and not one even", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 77\\nsuspecting he was crazy, if he was crazy. This was a\\nblow in the sore plexus of the conspiracy. They were\\nagain beaten in their murder plots, but yet they did not\\ngive up whipped.\\nFinancial aid was now secured to the victim by an\\neight dollar a day salary. The thugs present realized\\nthe situation, and hence the look of disappointment,\\nrevenge and villainy mingled and shown on their faces.\\nThe despair of these thugs could only be equaled by the\\nblack cap of death being placed over so many villains as\\nthe rope was being placed around their necks to pay the\\npenalty of murdering an innocent person.\\nJust after the election, the victim walked over to the\\nplace where these thugs were sitting just outside the bar\\nof the Senate and said, You thugs and murderers had\\nnow better go home and quit the business, for you can\\nnever get the drop on me in secret. I am now beyond\\nyour reach. They hung their heads and flushed, and\\nthe blood raised in their faces until they turned nearly\\nblack. They assumed a grin and were perfectly silent.\\nNot one of them spoke a word in their defense, except\\nWallace who said, We ll get you yet.\\nThe Senate having adjourned, the senators were just\\nleaving the Capitol together with other persons who\\nwere there as usual on such occasions. The victim was\\nnow about to take his departure which was noticed by\\nthe thugs, and Wallace followed him to the door on\\nTenth Street. The victim was alone and turned back\\nand waited until he found a gentleman who was going\\nout, and as they walked out, the victim kept a close\\nwatch upon either side of the walk so that Wallace could\\nnot sneak upon him. Wallace was hidden in the shrub-\\nbery, and after they got nearly out of the park, the\\nvictim looked back and saw Wallace sneaking out from", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\namong the shrubs. In a short time, Wallace was at\\nhis cigar stand, and failing to get a chance to earn his\\nblood-money, went to Woodland on the evening of the\\nsecond day.\\nIt was thought that the enemy would now see the\\nutter folly in trying to murder the victim and would\\nquit. To ascertain what possible knowledge he could\\non that point, the victim went from the State Capitol to\\nthe offices of Armstrong Hinkson and informed them\\nthat he had just been elected enrolling clerk of the\\nSenate, and finally told them that he was now beyond\\nthe reach of all murderers and while the conspiracy had\\nboycotted him and had him broke, he now had eight\\ndollars a day for that day and would get the same for\\nevery day in the week, and that he would soon have a\\ngun, and then he would not run an inch from them.\\nWhen the victim announced the news of his election,\\nJudge Armstrong s eyes flashed like the eyes of a tiger\\nin a dark cage. Hinkson excused himself by saying,\\nSullivan, talk to Judge Armstrong and tell him all\\nabout this affair, and then he went out and up the\\nstairs to Bugby s office to consult with the Sacramento\\nGeneral about future plans of destruction. The victim\\ntalked for a long time and told Judge Armstrong a great\\ndeal of the attempted murder history of himself up to\\nthat time, and tried to impress him with the fact that\\nthey would never succeed with their plans, because they\\nwere criminally wrong, and the victim was the one\\nsinned against and lied about. Armstrong listened\\nwith restlessness and replied by saying, Ball is your\\nfriend. Now, Ball s name was not used up to this\\npoint, hence the defense of Ball being interposed with-\\nout any attack upon him being made was certainly a\\nconfession of a guilty knowledge.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 79\\nThe judge then and there laid a plan to poison the\\nvictim, and to bring it about said, Sullivan, you ought\\nto have a tonic like I am taking from Dr. Snyder. I\\nwill see him and have him fix you up a bottle. It will\\nnot cost you anything. I know he will straighten you\\nright out. Don t you have a burning sensation in the\\nstomach and about the liver? The victim replied that\\nhis stomach, lungs, liver, and lights were all right and\\nas sound as a dollar. Even after this sharp rebuke the\\njudge kept right along playing him for a fool, asking\\nhim about his stomach and urging him to take a tonic\\nfrom his doctor, Snyder.\\nSo the next time he went into the judge s office,\\nJudge Armstrong went out, and in about the time that\\nit would have taken to send a telephone message to the\\ndoctor and return to the office, Judge Armstrong came\\nback, and very shortly the erudite Doctor made his\\nappearance. Judge Armstrong then commenced a\\nspeech wherein the victim was described as the sick man\\nwho wanted a tonic, and the person whom the doctor\\nhad been called to see. With unuttered and unutter-\\nable contempt for those two thugs, the victim left the\\noffice, and as he did so they gazed at him with a look of\\ndisappointed vengeance.\\nThe conspirators and thugs were so many in number,\\nworked so fast and devised so many foolish plans, that\\nit was very difficult for the victim to detect and act in\\nthe most judicious way in relation to all their attempts.\\nSuch was the case in relation to the judge and doctor\\nthis day. He should have taken the doctor s little\\nbottle of tonic and had it analyzed. Yet if it had been\\nhalf poison it would not have made any difference to\\nhim, for the money power would have exculpated them\\nbefore the courts, and in the public press.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nNow, on this first day of the session, Hinkson not\\nhaving returned and Armstrong having plead his and\\nBall s guilt, the victim went over to the Capitol Hotel,\\nin other words the political hotel, where he was going to\\nstay that night and where he thought perchance he might\\nhear or see something to his benefit. The thugs were\\naround with an air of vengeance, and along toward night\\nBugby, Hinkson, R. D. Stephens, and Judge McFar-\\nland, who was Hinkson s brother in-law, were hanging\\naround and conversing together with apparent great\\ninterest, very unnaturally so. Of course the fact is,\\nthey had to rearrange their plots since their victim was\\nelected enrolling clerk, and they were now attending to\\nthe duties with the active thugs.\\nThis Stephens was no relation to the Woodland\\nbanker, but was a politician and postmaster at the city\\nnow. He and the victim were old acquaintances and\\nhad worked in politics together. The victim met him\\nhere and said Russ, they are trying to murder me in\\nsecret and you can stop them. They are all wrong and\\nI want to explain it to you. Stephens said, I do\\nnot want to talk. I do not want to hear any more about\\nit. The victim quickly said, But here is my life at\\nstake and in danger by a band of rich people. At this\\npoint, Stephens passed into the hotel without saying\\nanother word. So, from what had passed and from all\\nthe circumstances, the victim saw that Stephens had\\ncast his lot with the criminals.\\nThis man Russ Stephens is an awful man. The\\nvictim was a delegate to the State Convention in 1880,\\nand helped to make Stephens a delegate-at-large to this\\nconvention, and to send him as a delegate from there to\\nthe National Convention that year; also, materially\\nassisted in making him a delegate to the State Conven-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 81\\ntion in 1882 at San Jose, and there supported him for\\nthe nomination for State Comptroller, and also sup-\\nported his friend, Clay W. Taylor, for governor against\\nGeneral Stoneman. Now, when the victim s life is\\nsought in so many ways as here told, Stephens turns\\nthe marble face. Just another case of man s ingratitude\\nto man. God have mercy on Stephens and the gang;\\nthey realized not what they did.\\nAlthough the victim had been elected enrolling clerk\\nthis day, his troubles about the same were not all over\\nby any means because of the charge which the Sacra-\\nmento Bee made that the victim was crazy. The\\ntrouble was that the Senate might pay some attention\\nto this charge and refuse to let him take the oath of\\noffice the next day. But the conspirators did not know\\nenough about the organization of the senate, or over-\\nlooked it, and the Senate knowing the charge was false,\\nthe victim qualified without objection. Nevertheless,\\nhe was greatly and secretly worried, and as an antidote\\nto this libel, he concluded that he could secretly use\\nHinkson to counteract whatever effect it might have,\\nHinkson could get anything printed in the next paper,\\nThe Record Union, so the victim got on the street car\\nto go to his home and have him put in an article, all\\nready prepared, killing the Bee charge.\\nHinkson had it put in, but in such a haggled shape\\nthat the correction was more injurious than the original\\ncharge. Now, to add a little more fire to the flame,\\nwhen he took the street car, three of the thugs also went\\naboard and he knowing their intention was to kill him\\nat the first good chance, of course added to his trouble.\\nAs luck had it at the next block T. K. Berkey, an ex-\\ncounty clerk of Sacramento County, with whom the\\nvictim was well acquainted, boarded the car and they", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nboth sat down together, and he then told Mr. Berkey\\nthat he had conferred a great and unconscious favor\\nupon him and he would tell him sometime what it was,\\nbut for the same reasons that he dared not tell Prof.\\nElton at Woodland, as you will recall, he dared not\\ntell at that time Mr. Berkey, although afterwards he\\ntalked with the ex-clerk who then knew in a general\\nway about the gang and was greatly shocked and dis-\\ngusted.\\nAs a further sample as to how Generalissimo Co.\\noperated, we show William Linn, a colored man, gave\\nevidence on the Harlan trial, and swore that he saw\\nthe deceased Craft about half an hour before the shoot-\\ning going through the Hesperian College grounds,\\nnear the place where he was killed, with a pistol in his\\nhand in open view. This testimony was evidently false,\\nand was given to serve as a basis for Harlan, the slayer,\\nto build a structure of self defense upon. So to pay\\nthis negro off, without using their own money, Ball\\nCo. sent him over to this session of the legislature to get\\nthe position of porter, but the first papers of the man\\nwere not strong enough.\\nSo Col. Harding came over with the full endorsement\\nof the conspiracy, and Lieut. -Governor Dagget, who\\nwas a great friend of Ball and belonged to this political\\ngang, appointed the negro porter of the Senate. Now,\\nwe may say this: Here is a lieutenant-governor, in\\norder to stand in with a gang of murderers, paying off a\\nnegro for false testimony by appointing him porter of\\nthe Senate; also placing him where he might have a\\nchance to watch and try to kill an innocent man that\\nthis powerful conspiracy wanted destroyed for reasons\\nalready stated.\\nWe are on the second day s session of the legislature,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 83\\nand Hogland tried his sneak game exactly in the same\\nplace and way as yesterday and was likewise foiled.\\nThe victim had now gone over to the offices of Arm-\\nstrong Hinkson to try to gather the points of the next\\nplot, when for some reason the thugs were thicker than\\never, and the victim thought of the saying, truth is\\nstranger than fiction, and these conspirators were prov-\\ning it. After talking awhile, Hinkson said, Sullivan,\\nyou ought to sleep in a more quiet place than the Capitol\\nHotel. I think the State House would be better.\\nWhat a foolish, self-convicting proposition this was\\nfor Hinkson to make. But his desire to murder over-\\ncame his judgment. The State House was a nice, quiet\\nplace in a less frequented part of the city and more\\naccessible to the thugs. The Capitol Hotel was the\\nrendezvous for politicians, the Woodland gang with\\ntheir Sacramento contingent, and now they wanted to\\nmurder the victim at the hotel and they did not want\\ntheir own hotel stained with the outrage.\\nAfter dinner at the Capitol Hotel this day, the victim\\nhad the same kind of burning sensation in his stomach\\nas described by Judge Armstrong the day before. These\\nfeelings were the most intense just after he had eaten\\nhis soup. He noticed the Irish steward as soon as he\\nhad ordered this soup go with the waiter who had the\\norder to the kitchen, and when he was eating it, it was\\nevident from the looks of the waiters that there was\\nsomething going on unusual. There are a great many\\nother facts and details that could be stated to show that\\nthis soup contained some kind of poison.\\nNow, after awhile, the victim went to Armstrong s\\noffice, and he seemed greatly worried. He would look\\nat the victim with amazement as if to say, Why, are\\nyou alive. I was told the poison in your soup would", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "S4 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nkill you Are you a spirit Then he commenced\\nrepeating softly to himself, God moves in a mysterious\\nway, His wonders to perform; He puts his foot upon\\nthe sea and rides upon the storm. He told Armstrong\\nthat his quotation was true and to remember it, for he\\nshould yet prove the application to his case, where they\\nwere all trying to destroy him, but that all the money\\nin Woodland could not kill him or send him to any\\nasylum. Armstrong sneeringly replied, Money is\\npowerful, and I know that it has hung innocent men\\nherein California. The victim said, Yes; but he\\nwas not going to the grave as a ransom for the crimes\\nof others.\\nFrederick Cox is a native of England and has been a\\nresident of Sacramento for a great number of years. He\\nwas now State Senator and a banker worth many millions.\\nHe possessed thousands of thousands of acres of land\\nover which roamed lowing herds of cattle and neighing\\nhorses. His wealth alone gave him great prominence\\nin the State. The victim had been his political sup-\\nporter for years, the same as that of Postmaster\\nStephens, but now from the Senator s treatment and\\nactions the victim suspected his loyalty, and to test the\\nsame, as he met the Senator on the afternoon of this\\nday, he said: Well, Senator, they haven t got me yet.\\nI have qualified and I think I can stand them off\\nand keep them from killing me at least. The\\nSenator replied: Well, they may get you yet;\\nthere is time enough. So, then, the Senator showed\\nthat he had gone into camp with the army and plead a\\nguilty knowledge of the intended murder.\\nIt was now nearly evening on the last .day referred to,\\nand in addition to the hyenas snapping at the heels of\\nthe intended corpse, Oscar Marshall was noticed as a", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 85\\nwistful beast thirsting for blood and boodle. He, like\\nnegro Linn, had succeeded in getting Lieut. -Gov. Dagget\\nto appoint him porter of the Senate, and was a valuable\\nacquisition to the gang, having come from the city of\\nStockton where he held a place that qualified him to do\\ncrime and hide the evidence of his guilt. The General s\\naids, rank and file of the combine were now assembled\\naround the Capitol Hotel. The victim was there\\nmingling in the midst of the throng, apparently uncon-\\ncerned, yet watchful and trying to catch some word or\\nact by which he could determine the next attempt to be\\nmade on the his life.\\nNow, just after dark this evening, the proprietor of\\nthis hotel, Mr. Blessing, could not be found in any of\\nhis usual places about the hotel, and the reason then\\nassigned and subsequently confessed was that, inasmuch\\nas he pretended to be the victim s friend, and knowing\\nthat he was to be murdered that night, and fearing that\\nhe might say something about so many thugs being\\nabout his hotel in his presence and in the presence of\\nrespectable strangers there, also about the intended\\nmurder, Blessing therefore to avoid such a compromis-\\ning contingency kept out of the way.\\nPreparatory to the intended tragedy of the evening,\\nRuss Stephens came about eleven o clock and went\\ndirectly into the Capitol Hotel where he and his wife\\nboarded and roomed, and he took her on his arm and\\nwalked off toward J. Street. After this occurrence, the\\nvictim concluded to take his chances and get some other\\nplace to stay that night. For he now knew that he was\\nto be spirited away from the Capitol Hotel that night\\nand killed; hence, Stephens came and took his wife\\naway so that she might not hear the life and death\\nstruggle or be a possible witness. Besides, for other", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nimaginable reasons, he did not want her there that\\nnight.\\nPeter Byrnes, Stephens faithful secretary, was on\\nduty to watch the victim and see that at all times he\\ncould be located. Now, about twelve o clock Byrnes\\nhad received an invitation to get some free beer and\\nwent into the saloon on the opposite corner, and as the\\nfoolish dastard went through the saloon door he looked\\nback to see that the intended corpse was in its proper\\nplace. The victim now immediately left the porch of\\nthe hotel where he had been sitting for a long time,\\nand went a crooked, zigzag route to the Western Hotel,\\nfor the purpose of obtaining lodgings. He thought\\nthey would not find him there for one night at least, and\\nif they did, it would so conflict with their Capitol\\nHotel plan that an attack on him could not be made\\nthat night. Upon entering the hotel, the victim saw\\nfour suspicious looking fellows hanging around the office\\ncounter talking to Felix Conroy, the night clerk. None\\nof them had the apparent look and character of a bold,\\nbloody bandit, who would take his life in his hands for\\nmoney, but had the appearance of the sneak thief,\\ncowardly kind of person, who would only murder a\\nman when asleep or when they had the absolute drop\\non their victim.\\nThey all sized up the new arrival and kept moving\\nabout suspiciously while he was registering and\\narranging for a room. One of them had a handkerchief\\nover his right eye for the purpose of disguising himself.\\nJust why he should disguise himself was never known\\nto the victim, for he was a stranger to him. He was\\nthe most vicious-looking of the four.\\nHe suspected they were there for the purpose of\\nmurdering him in case he came there to sleep, and", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\n87\\nwould probably make the attempt after he had gone to\\nbed; but he had to sleep some place so he might as\\nwell take the chances, or there was a possibility of his\\nbeing mistaken. Besides, he thought all the hotels he\\nmight go to would have thugs stationed at them as at\\nthis one. The question might be here asked, Why did\\nhe not inform the police? The true answer is that there\\nwas money enough seeking his life to buy the silence of\\nnearly all the police in the city, and if he had applied\\nto the police he would have been furnishing grounds for\\nthem to claim he was crazy, and that might endanger\\nhis office as enrolling clerk. So if the devil and the\\ndeep sea ever existed in a man s life time it was then\\nexisting in the victim s life.\\nWESTERN HOTEL.\\nThe clerk assigned him room No. 170, and said that\\nwas the only vacant room, when there were twelve other\\ngood rooms unoccupied at that time. If you are ever", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nat the Western Hotel, go and look at this room, but go\\nin the day time. It is a most convenient place to do a\\nsecret murder in. It is situate in the first story front-\\ning on an alley in the extreme rear of the hotel. A few\\nfeet away and nearly opposite is a small wooden build-\\ning in the rear of the Western Union Telegraph office.\\nThis building had a door and window looking toward\\nroom No. 170, and the windows were nearly opposite\\neach other.\\nAfter the victim had been in his room a few minutes\\ntwo persons came along and lighted a match and said\\nsomething, not entirely understood, about 170. There\\nwas an open transom over the door, their idea was to\\nget a perfect location of the room. In about half an\\nhour he was lying on his left side with his eyes shut\\nabout half asleep.\\nSuddenly the room seemed light and he opened his\\neyes and there in the window of the little wooden build-\\ning he saw the bandaged-eye thug manipulating a dark\\nlantern so as to throw the rays on his face to see\\nwhether he was asleep or not; also to observe his\\nposition. The victim immediately jumped out of bed\\nand the dark lantern was as quickly closed. The facts\\nall taken together show that William Land, the pro-\\nprietor of this hotel, who is from Fort Plain, N. Y., had\\na guilty knowledge of this intended murder, and pre-\\nsumably had agreed through Bugby, the Sacramento\\nbrigadier to share in what was left of Harlan s $10,000\\nmurder fund.\\nWhen he was meandering back to the hotel office he\\nwas certainly innoculated with some very queer sensa-\\ntions about meeting some of the assassins there, and all\\nthe money in the State could not induce him to undergo\\nsuch sensations again, if such were possible. Shortly", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 89\\nafter he got back to the hotel office in came the dark\\nlantern man with another of the thugs. They came\\nfrom the hallway leading back to the place where they\\nwere seen with the lantern.\\nAt about this point Assemblyman E. C. Mundy from\\nSanta Rosa, Sonoma County, and J. H. Moffitt from\\nAlameda County were passing on the sidewalk and the\\nvictim went out and told them in a brief way all that he\\nhad experienced at this hotel. He invited them in to\\nthe bar and had them take a look at the assassins and\\nrepeated the charge against these fellows to murder him\\nin the presence of the night clerk, who then charged the\\nvictim with being crazy, and cited the article in the\\nSacramento Bee to prove it. One of the Assembly-\\nmen said, Well, that article in the Bee is false, and\\nwe know that, but just what has been going on here I\\ndo not know.\\nAnd about that time the Assemblymen retired and the\\nvictim went to the City Hotel between Third and Fourth\\nstreets on K There he met Pat Connelly, the owner\\nand proprietor of the hotel, who furnished him with a\\ngood, safe room, where he slept until the next morning.\\nSome time after he met Mr. Connelly and the whole\\nmurder story was explained to him, and he advised the\\nvictim to write the story up and put in book form and\\nsell it.\\nOn this morning, the victim went back to the West-\\nern Hotel and explained to A. W. Morris, the chief\\nclerk, his experience at the hotel the night before. Mr.\\nMorris begged him to say nothing more about it, as an\\nexposure would do no good, and about this time the\\nowner, Mr. Land, came up and caused his clerk to quit\\ntalking, thus impliedly admitting his own guilt.\\nThe victim then went out on the street and met some", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nof the murder generals who looked sheepish and\\nchagrined over the result of their device to murder the\\nvictim at the Capitol Hotel the night before, but the\\nthugs were around as active as ever in trying to get a\\nsecret chance to murder.\\nThen the victim went to Hinkson s office and had a\\nkind of mutual pumping match between them. After\\na while, Hinkson said, Now, keep quiet and do not\\nsay anything to outsiders about this, and we will try to\\nsee if it can t be fixed up without any more publicity.\\nHe knew that Hinkson s real desire was to keep the\\nevidence and facts in the breasts of the victim s enemies\\nthen, if they failed in killing him the world could not\\nbe made to believe there was anything to the alleged\\nconspiracy.\\nBut the victim acted right to the contrary of his late\\nadviser in the person of his false friend Hinkson, and\\nwent right across J. Street to R. F. Redman s store at\\n310 and there informed him in an hour s talk of the\\nwhole affair, so that he would be able to prove in a\\ndegree the correctness of the story; and from there he\\nwent to William McLaughlin s and related to him the\\nhistory of this secret war, and said to him, You are\\nacquainted with these fellows at the Capitol Hotel, and\\nare on the inside now go there and enquire about this\\nconspiracy to murder me and you will find what I\\nsay is true, and that the Capitol Hotel fellows are help-\\ning them simply because the money is on that side.\\nThe next time the victim met McLaughlin he said all\\nthat the victim had said was true and more, and advised\\nthe victim to keep out of the alleys and off the dark\\nstreets and he would beat them sure.\\nOn the 23d inst, the victim borrowed $20.00 from a\\nmoney broker on the strength of his salary and bought", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 91\\na Smith Wesson self-cocking 38 calibre pistol, which\\nhe has yet, and its only truth to say that he then in a\\nway felt as bold as a wild lion in a jungle and they\\nknew it; for they knew him and that he had the pistol,\\nfor he had been watched in its purchase by Nick White,\\na writer on the Record Union.\\nThis evening the city was sentinelled as usual, and\\nthere were about eighteen known thugs trying to get a\\nsecret drive at him. Now, as it was getting along in\\nthe evening, he began to think of a place to sleep and\\nwas not particular so that he had a room fronting on\\nthe street, for he was satisfied that he could kill four or\\nfive of them before they could break into his room and\\nperhaps the shooting might call some one to the scene.\\nHe slipped away from the watchers at the Capitol Hotel\\nwithout being noticed, but soon made his way to the\\nRuss House on J. Street. This was a new hotel, not\\nextensively patronized, and he thought he could hide\\nthere for one night at least without being found but\\nnot so, they were looking and guarding everywhere.\\nHe met the cigarette fiend from Woodland on the street\\nnearly opposite this house. He was on sentinel duty\\nand tried to hide his face as the victim spotted him.\\nAt the Russ House was Felix Dunn, deputy State Comp-\\ntroller, with whom the victim was quite well ac-\\nquainted. The murder gang being opposed to his\\nbrother, who was then State Comptroller, the -victim\\ncalled him aside and told him what was going on in the\\nmurder line. Mr. Dunn said, Don t be afraid,\\nSullivan, they dare not harm you unless they catch a\\nsure shot, and this I don t believe you will let them\\ndo. He replied, I am not afraid of them now. I\\nonly told you so that when this secret war is over they\\ncan t lie out of it.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nHe occupied room No. 6, which had a window open-\\ning on the side of the house, while directly opposite was\\nroom No. 9 with transoms over the doors. Shortly\\nafter he had barricaded the door with the furniture, he\\nlay down on the floor behind it and then the cigarette\\nfiend made his appearance in No. 9, lighted the gas,\\nand in a short time extinguished it. About two o clock\\nthe. victim heard the footsteps of five or six persons in\\nthe hall. They came to his door and tried to open it\\ngently, but they found it barred. At about this time,\\nthe gas in No. 9 was relighted and they all went into\\nthat room and there held a whispered conversation.\\nIn the meantime, the victim had raised the window of\\nhis room and had his pistol in one hand and his police\\nwhistle in the other, and as the thugs came back and\\ntried to get into this room he thought discretion the\\nbetter part of valor and instead of beginning to shoot\\nthrough the door at them, he blew the whistle out of\\nthe window, when they all ran pell mell down two\\nflights of stairs and out into the street, and thus ended\\nthe contemplated murder for that night, and the victim\\nlay down and had a good and much needed sleep.\\nAnother wife episode occurred after Stephens took his\\nwife from the Capitol Hotel, in this way: Col. James\\nAyers was the State Printer. His office was of course\\npolitical and was procured through the contingency now\\nafter the victim s life. The victim was not previously\\nacquainted with the printer nevertheless, the typo came\\nto him and affected great sympathy for him, and talked\\nas though he were fully posted on all the plots and\\nplans against the victim. He earnestly requested the\\nvictim to go out to this home that night and sleep all\\nnight, stating that his wife was not at home, she being\\nthe whole family aside from the generous printer, who", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 93\\nwas then shedding a great quantity of crocodile tears\\nover the misfortunes of the poor victim. The deceit\\nwas so apparent and the intention so certain that the\\nvictim simply heard him present his plot of destruction\\nwithout even condescending to make him any reply,\\nunless it was grinning detection at him. The gallant\\nColonel never spoke to the victim after this time, though\\nthey used to meet nearly every day of the session.\\nThe same James Meredith that was mentioned at\\nFolson as the special friend of Bugby was now compar-\\natively dead broke and living at Sacramento City, and\\nhad some kind of interest in a drug store at the corner\\nof Second and K. Streets. Now, about the 24th of July\\nthe victim was at this drug store and told Mr. Meredith\\nabout this combination trying to kill him, and of his\\ndesire to find some safe place to sleep at night. He\\ntold him that he had a large home on M Street, that he\\nwould see his wife about it, and for the victim to come\\naround the next evening and he would let him know.\\nThe next evening the victim went to the store, and\\nMr. Meredith said yes, that it was all fixed; that they\\nwould go down and look at .the room that his two\\nlarger children had gone to Folson that morning and the\\nyoung ones were in bed. This clearing the home of\\nchildren was significant and from that instant the victim\\nwould not sleep there, though he thought he would go\\nto see how far they would go or what might develop.\\nThey went into a cigar store on Second Street adjoining\\nthe saloon into which Wallace from Woodland had\\ngone on July 20th. Mr. Meredith called for twenty-five\\ncent cigars. The victim noted this as extravagant for\\na man broke, who wanted to take in roomers, and from\\nthat moment was perfectly well satisfied that he had", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nseen Bugby and was making a play for boodle, and of\\ncourse did not care for half a dollar.\\nAs they walked out, there in front of the saloon stood\\ntwo thugs that had previously been watching to get a\\nsecret drop on him, and Meredith slightly motioned his\\nhead to the right at the Mexican thug in middle life.\\nThey went off toward the house of Meredith and the\\nvictim looked back after a little and saw the two thugs\\nfollowing. In due time they arrived at the house and\\nwere very nicely received by Mrs Meredith.\\nAfter a while she showed the victim the room he was\\nexpected to occupy, which was on the ground floor in\\nthe rear of the house with front and back entrance. It\\nwas a twin to the murder room No. 170 at the Western\\nHotel. They returned to the sitting room, where Mrs.\\nMeredith by her superior mind entertained him and\\nvery graciously showed him many of the pretty things\\nin the room, making herself extra agreeable. After he\\nhad gleaned all the points from this field of his ruin,\\nhe assumed great regret in not being desirous of taking\\nthe room.\\nUpon this announcement, the scowls, frowns and\\nwrinkles that instantly showed themselves upon her\\nface can only be known by the imagination, for there is\\nno pen that can describe her looks. It is truth to say\\nthat she looked like one suffering under some great,\\nsecret calamity, or like one having been seriously dis-\\nappointed by not receiving some great and needed gain.\\nThere were great, deep furrows that inniated in the centre\\nof her forehead and plowed themselves in a circular form\\naround over her eyes until they were lost on the sides of\\nher head. Her lips were firmly set with the corners of\\nher mouth drawn down. Her eyes were glaring with\\nwild, disappointed stare, first looking up and then down,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 95\\nwhile Meredith seemed to cower and sink into insignifi-\\ncance. His face became intensely red, and great drops\\nof sweat trying to ooze out were wiped off with his\\nhand. It was fully four minutes after he told them he\\nwould not occupy their room that night before a word\\nwas spoken by any of them, then he arose and helped\\nhimself to his hat that had been so gracefully cared for\\nby Mrs. Meredith when he entered, and while they were\\nstill spellbound and mutely sitting in their seats, he\\nrespectfully bade them Good night, leaving them to\\nthe awful contemplation of their own sins, etc. etc.\\nHe had gone only a few steps on the sidewalk when\\nhe saw the old Mexican ahead of him, who went to the\\noutside of the walk and looked out into the street as the\\nvictim passed. Shortly after the killers had been dis-\\nbanded, he met the old Mexican Who had on a new pair\\nof brogans and he said, You didn t get me at Mere-\\ndith s that night, did you. He said, No. He then\\nasked the Mexican how much he got out of them. The\\nMexican said, Nothing but these shoes, some beer and\\ntobacco.\\nAfter the war was over and the victim was about\\ncoming East, he met Meredith and had a talk with him,\\nand he substantially admitted the whole story as here\\ntold about him, but like the other assassins justified\\nhimself for the reason that since the victim was to be\\nkilled sure, he might as well have some of the money.\\nWe now pass over several minor tragedical episodes\\nthat occurred and come to Capt. I. G. Mesick, Sergeant-\\nat-arms of the Senate, who held his position through\\nthat faction of the Democratic party that was persecuting\\nthe victim. The flames of vengeance and destruction\\nwere now raging against him. So this valiant captain\\nthought he must help the thing along and keep himself", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nsolid with the gang, and to that end he planned a little,\\nweak, puerile plot, which was sought to be worked by\\nthe captain s ordering the Enrolling Clerk away from a\\nvacant desk in the open Senate chamber and directing\\nhim to a lone room where it was said by the captain\\nthat the clerk might have his office.\\nThe victim knew from the general situation, and\\nfrom what he had overhead the captain say about him,\\nthat this was a little plot of the captain to get him into\\na room where he could be killed, and he plainly told\\nhim so and refused to go. The plot failed, but the\\nvictim dared not say much openly about any of these\\nplots, because they would furnish grounds to institute\\ninsanity proceedings against him, and he would then\\nlose his office, for the kettle was boiling hot at this time.\\nThe grand army of assassins were now outgeneraled\\nand their defeat assured providing the victim could\\nprocure a safe place to sleep so this day he went to the\\nHotel Windsor and had room No. 140 assigned to him\\nfor three days, and as he was turning away from the\\ncounter after registering, he noticed one of the thugs\\npeering in at him from the sidewalk. He knew that he\\nwas detected notwithstanding he had registered under\\nan assumed name at a strange hotel. He must now\\nfind another place to sleep or be destroyed. In the\\nmeantime, they had procured a large trunk from the\\ncorner of Sixth and K streets and taken it to a place on\\nEighth Street at easy distance from the Windsor, to\\nhold his remains akin to the Maxwell murder of St.\\nLouis then rampant in the papers. Disease is catching,\\nyou know; and about bed-time he gave the watch-dogs\\nat the Capitol Hotel the slip and wended his way to\\nMrs. Castorf s lodging house on the corner of Third and\\nK streets, where he obtained a room and had a good", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 97\\nsleep all night. Before retiring he told the landlady\\nabout this gang so that she might not get frightened if she\\nheard a little shooting.\\nUpon arriving at the corner on which this lodging\\nhouse is situated, he noticed two of the thugs there on\\nthe watch. So instead of going directly upstairs to the\\nhouse, he went into the saloon of J. D. Considine\\nunderneath and from there went up the back way. But\\nbefore he went up he explained to Considine all about\\nthis killing match, and how Postmaster Stephens had\\ntreated him. Considine was one of the political pillars\\nupon which Stephens rested, and he derided Stephens\\nfor his base ingratitude. But the next day, when seen,\\nConsidine seemed to be averse to talking much, so the\\nvictim slipped in the question, Have you seen\\nStephens today? He answered first, Yes, then\\nmeditated and said, No. This was enough for a man\\nup a tree with all trying to get a shot at him. Considine\\nafter the war admitted that he knew that they were try-\\ning to kill the victim with Harlan s money, and that he\\ndecided to keep out of both sides. He is not a bad\\nfellow and had no criminal intent himself.\\nThe second night* that he stayed at Mrs, Castorf s the\\nthugs had found out his sleeping quarters, so he had\\nabout the same experience with them as at the Russ\\nhouse with the difference that he had no chance to blow\\nthe whistle so as to arouse the people on the street, and\\nthe thugs did not give up their attempts so quickly\\nbesides their tactics here were to try the door and\\naggravate the victim out into the hall where they might\\nget a pop at him, but after about an hour they went\\naway and he had plenty of sleep after that.\\nThe next close shave for his life was like this he was\\npassing a lumber yard away up on Twelfth Street, near", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nJ Street, about half past eight o clock in the evening.\\nIt was so far away from the general rendezvous of the\\nassassins that he had not prepared for, or been thinking of\\nany danger, when from the lumber yard, pop, pop, went\\ntwo gun shots, one of them cutting a hole in the lapel\\nof his coat near the waist. He immediately turned and\\nlooked toward the place whence the shots came, and he\\nsaw two fellows running who turned behind a pile of\\nlumber, and the victim lost no time in making himself\\nscarce in that part of the city. He could prove nothing\\nabout this except the fact of the hole in his coat, and\\nthey would say he made it himself, so he simply said\\nnothing about it, but kept good watch against attacks\\nin the future.\\nIt would take a book five times the size of this to give\\nthe details of all the plots and plans of this conspiracy,\\nso the line has to be drawn on some of the prominent\\nones, that can in a measure be authenticated by persons\\nother than the thugs and the victim. He again went\\nto Henry L. Buckley, district attorney of Sacramento\\nCounty, and gave him a general outline of the whole\\naffair, and after consultation it was decided not to have\\nany of them arrested until further direct evidence was\\nprocured. So here was another person who knew some\\nthing of this war at the time it was raging.\\nIt was now the 27th of July, 1886, and Mr. Blessing,\\nthe proprietor of this Capitol Hotel is sitting in a chair\\ndeeply engrossed in reading matter written on legal cap\\npaper. The victim by accident came up behind him\\nwithout making any noise. Mr. Blessing continued to\\nread and the victim looked over and saw his own name,\\nJezebel s, Nora Cameron s, Katie Ball s, and also that\\nof Vic Harlan s in the papers which he read. Mr.\\nBlessing read for quite a long time before he noticed", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 99\\nthe victim. When he did notice him, he immediately\\nrolled up the legal cap paper, arose and went away.\\nBut it was too late the discovery had been made and\\nthe true situation arrived at.\\nThe reason for Harlan s son-in-law s attack on him\\nwith assassins at Woodland and elsewhere was soon\\nsolved by him. He now recalled how Jezebel had lied\\nand taunted him by saying that he had slandered Vic\\nHarlan, and how she said that her mother, Mrs.\\nBentley, Nora Cameron, Ball s niece, Ball s daughter\\nKatie, and others would swear that he had slandered\\nthis young woman (whom up to that time he had\\nnever seen. He remembered how these persons came\\nto his house and tried to get him to talk about young\\nCraft, and Miss Harlan, etc. Also, how he had heard\\npersons in the hall at night, and Jezebel would try to\\naggravate him to talk about this Harlan tragedy.\\nHe considered the unrelenting, vicious attacks made\\non his life, which he knew were induced by the sure,\\nstrong power of money, and that it took big money to\\nrun such a secret war and pay all the officers and thugs,\\nand his mind was now made up that Harlan was the\\nman putting up the murder money. The victim there-\\nfore lost no time in making his affidavit in duplicate,\\naddressed to Harlan, which showed that he was trying\\nto murder the victim with hired thugs for an alleged\\nslander of his daughter, which was false, and that he\\nwas deceived by the use of false affidavits into believing\\nthis falsehood, while the truth was, his once alleged but\\nfalse friends were using him and his money to murder\\nthe victim to cover up the evidence of their own crimes\\nand immorality, and that if his affidavit was accepted\\nin good faith by him he would know it by the fact of\\nthe assassins ceasing their hunt to kill him.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nAfter this affidavit was made, he read it to Hinkson,\\nand in about an hour after it was deposited in the post-\\noffice, he saw Hinkson and Clay W. Taylor going up\\nthe stairway leading to Brigadier Bugby s office, and\\nthat evening there was not an assassin to be seen. So\\nhe knew the affidavit had taken effect and produced the\\nlong desired result.\\nAfter this affidavit, the Brigadier and his aids knew\\nthat the source of their power was known, and they\\nfeared exposure, especially if the victim was killed and\\nthe copy of the affidavit he had kept was found. Also,\\nthat if he was killed and the decent people of Woodland\\ngot hold of this affidavit, showing Harlan s part in the\\nmurder conspiracy, his chances for conviction on. his\\nsecond trial would be greatly increased. So for these\\nreasons and others as cogent, the assassins were called\\noff.\\nThe true theory about this Harlan affidavit is that as\\nsoon as Hinkson got an opportunity to inform Post-\\nmaster Stephens that it was to be mailed to Harlan, he\\ndid so, and as soon as it was mailed Stephens took it to\\nthe Brigadier s office where the consultation over it was\\nhad and the conclusion reached as pointed out. Now,\\nSenator Taylor undoubtedly thought that as soon as the\\nHarlan thugs had been disbanded and the murder\\nmoney taken down, the war would be over. Being\\ndesirous of retaining the victim s friendship, the Senator\\nthought all he had to do was to tell him of his narrow\\nescape.\\nThe next morning after he had mailed the affidavit to\\nHarlan, he went into the State Capitol and there the\\nSenator called the victim aside and said, Sullivan, you\\nhave avoided a great calamity. You have escaped being\\nkilled. Why did you not leave the country? And", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 101\\nthus the would-be governor plead the guilt of the bunch\\nof conspirators. He also impliedly told the victim\\nsomething which he did not know before, which was\\nthat they thought he would be frightened and leave the\\ncountry. Before this time, the victim had applied to\\nhim to stop the persecution and the great Solon would\\nnot listen. Another fact, worthy of note, is the single\\naffidavit of truth counteracted the great number of\\naffidavits made by sirens and libertines, and truth\\ncrushed to earth had arisen.\\nThe strictly political and immoral part of this con-\\nspiracy did not disband, notwithstanding they lost the\\nhelp of Harlan and his money, for they well knew that\\nthe victim must be killed or their exposure would\\nfollow sooner or later. So they made a new plan which\\nwas worked out in this way.\\nJezebel now came to Sacramento City and hunted up\\nthe victim. He let her have full swing with her designs\\nto find them out, and then beat them as he knew he\\ncould so she through John Tackney, a friend of Ball s\\nfound a real nice room on Tenth Street to sleep in, she\\nwas so very solicitous that he should have rest, and it\\nwas all talked up, agreed upon and engaged. He was\\nto sleep there that night. After everything was so\\nthoughtfully and nicely arranged for his nightly repose,\\nshe suddenly found that she must go back to Woodland\\nthat evening, and late that evening she went out into\\nthe country and stayed all night. Her confederates had\\nher do this, so that when the news of his murder arrived\\nat Woodland, she and her pals would be several miles\\napart, and that would make it easier for them to allay\\nany suspicions against them also, there would then be\\nmore time in which to consider the best way for her to\\nact so as to deceive the honest and decent people there.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nWell, it so happened that the victim stayed at this\\nhouse until after dark, and this same Hogland came\\nsneaking around the house, and when the victim\\nthought it most desirable he slipped away and obtained\\na bed at the same Mrs. Castorf s, and thus the murder\\nplan was made and defeated.\\nAnother little circumstance considered worthy of\\nmention is, that the victim had after the last escapade\\nbeen hiding and sleeping nights at the water cure, one\\nblock below the Capitol Hotel and they had not been\\nable to find him out. So one morning as he came down\\nfrom his rooms the landlady, whom he had never seen\\nbut once, accosted him just as he was leaving and asked\\nhim to go to her class, whatever that meant. He knew\\nall this was so unnatural that it meant something affect-\\ning him, and if so, it must be his life that was so\\nsecretly and strenously sought.\\nHe soon found out, for as he opened the door there\\non the opposite corner stood Senator Cox watching for\\nsome one, and as soon as he espied the victim, he\\nturned around, humped up his shoulders, bent forward\\nthe upper part of his body, and in a hurried, sneaking\\nkind of manner went toward the Sacramento river.\\nThe victim hurried after, and caught up with him and\\nsaid, Senator, they have not knocked me out of exist\\nenceyet, have they? He said, No; neither have they\\nknocked the Supreme Court out, thus evasively parry-\\ning the subject.\\nThe true theory is, Senator Cox had asked this lady\\nabout the victim by description and for her to detain\\nhim when he came down stairs; and by previous signs\\nand help, he would get in position to watch to see if it\\nreally was he when he came out of the house, and\\nthen the remaining contingent of the band would know", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 103\\nfor certain his sleeping quarters and could make killing\\narrangements accordingly. The victim would never\\nsuspect him of doing such a low, dirty act. What a\\nvillainous wretch a man must be to use the power his\\nmillions gave him to spy out the sleeping apartments of\\nhis friend that he might be sneaked upon and killed in\\nbed.\\nHis hiding place having been detected by Senator\\nCox, he must now find a new place or be killed. So he\\nstrolled about the city and finally selected as the most\\nsecretive and least suspected by his enemies a little,\\ntwo story frame house on L Street, the castle of Mr.\\nJohn 0 Brien. The room assigned him had a window\\nopening onto a woodshed by the side of which stood a\\nsycamore tree. He slept there that night undisturbed\\nand in the morning had breakfast with his new hostess.\\nWhile eating, he asked her if she had seen or heard\\nany person about the house the night before. She said,\\nthat she had not, but that just after he had gone to bed\\nshe went out to the grocery and she noticed a large man\\npacing back and forth by the house and looking toward\\nit. He was also very impudent, for he looked right into\\nthe very eyes of her. She then described this man\\nvery minutely, which description showed him to be no\\nother than Hogland.\\nThe victim then told her how this fellow and others\\nhad been trying to get a chance to secretly kill him.\\nDuring the whole of this day he could not help but\\nbelieve that some of the combine would go to Mrs.\\nO Brien and cause her by the allurements of money to\\nbetray his hiding place. So to detect such contingency\\nhe went there to supper, and her actions being so much\\ndifferent from those of the night before, and her many\\nlies about her husband s business, and in fact and short", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nit being so evident to the victim that some great change\\nof heart and mind had taken place, he concluded it very\\nunsafe to stay there and take the chances in getting\\naway safe by sliding down the sycamore tree, as she\\nsuggested.\\nThere can be no doubt but that she had been bribed\\nto let Hogland into the room to kill the victim. Yet,\\nnot being a criminal at heart and only temporarily made\\nso by a few dollars, she felt conscience-stricken and\\nthus unconsciously suggested the manner of escape by\\nwhich she in a way pleaded her guilt.\\nThat night the victim obtained lodging with a slight\\nacquaintance of his, Thomas O Brien, on J Street,\\nwhere he had a good sleep and breakfast in the morn-\\ning. In the meantime, the whole subject of this con-\\nspiracy was briefly gone over, and Mr. O Brien promised\\nall kinds of aid and assistance and that the victim s\\nroom should remain an absolute secret from the enemy.\\nBut the victim began to analyze the situation to him-\\nself about like this Here is 0 Brien, an apparent and\\nprofessed friend and likewise a friend of Postmaster\\nStephens, and must necessarily be a greater friend of his\\nthan of the victim, for the reason that his greater interest\\nlaid there, because of the fact that Stephens had ap-\\npointed his son to a position in the postoffice. Should\\nStephens or any of the combine meet O Brien and\\nenquire about the victim, the victim s new hiding-\\nplace would be entirely disclosed and thus the victim\\nworked in solving the situation until he traced Mr.\\nBlessing of the Capitol Hotel going up J Street, until\\nhe was lost by going into O Brien s house. This settled\\nthe fact.\\nBlessing had in some way been informed of the\\nvictim s hiding place of the night before, and had now", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 105\\ngone in there for some reason that would help the des-\\ntruction plan along. When the victim went to O Brien s\\nthat night he found him half drunk and very reticent.\\nNot a word could be gotten out of him, though his\\ninebriate state was just at that point when an Irishman\\nis always talkative.\\nNow, we all know that an Irishman is a great person\\nto drink when death or danger is at hand, and O Brien s\\ncondition was only true to this characteristic, as the\\nvictim then well knew. Notwithstanding his conclusion\\nabout O Brien and the general situation, he was satisfied\\nthat he could safely sleep there that night for the\\nreason that the apartments were not easy of access by\\nassassins; besides, there were children in the house,\\nand in case of murder they would be a bad class of\\nwitnesses for the combine, as they usually tell the\\ntruth; also, for the further reason that he had that\\nday again informed District Attorney Buckley of the\\nentire situation, the 0 Brien house and all.\\nThey in all probability had not yet formulated a plan\\nof direct attack as Hogland was the only known assassin\\nin active blood service, and he was a coward; so he\\nconcluded that inasmuch as he ate there that morning\\nthey would likely try the poison racket on him.\\nThe next morning his breakfast was prepared for him\\nthe same as the morning before with this difference: the\\npreceding morning the coffee was made and served from\\na tin coffee pot, this morning the coffee prepared for\\nhim was made in and served from a two quart tin\\nbucket. There was a teaspoon quite close to his coffee\\nwhich had a drop of liquid in it. He took the spoon\\nup and smelled it, and thereby found that the spoon\\nand fluid smelled of some kind of drug so it is perhaps\\nuseless to say, he drank none of the coffee there that", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nmorning, nor ever after. This is as close as they came\\nto poisoning him, and as close as he wanted them to\\ncome.\\nIt was now evident that in order to preserve his life\\nhe must keep away from O Brien s house, for if he\\ncould not be secretly poisoned there he would be killed\\noutright. His next hiding place was obtained at Mrs.\\nHennessey s lodging house on J Street near Seventh\\nStreet. It was a large brick house with an approach\\nfrom the rear as well as the front.\\nThe occupants were all respectable mechanics and\\nrailroad employees, and total strangers to the victim,\\nso by not giving his correct name he had a right to\\nassume that he was reasonably safe here, which he was.\\nHis hiding place could not now be discovered by the\\ncombine and he slept here for several nights without\\ndetection.\\nAt last the combine became desperate and they sent\\nJezebel over from Woodland to spy him out. Now,\\nthe fact that a woman would come twenty eight miles\\nto spy out the sleeping apartments of any man under\\nany circumstances, and especially the ones here so that\\nhe might be found and killed, is perfectly appalling,\\nand especially is this so, when the only reason for such\\nkilling was to hide their own sins nevertheless, it is all\\ntrue.\\nNow the question might be asked, Why the victim\\ndid not refuse to countenance this woman any longer,\\nand not allow her to come around him? Such is a very\\nreasonable question, and the answer to it would require\\ngreat space. Suffice it to say, the die had long since\\nbeen cast. She was a murderess, which he now knew,\\nand she had then been for a long time trying to have\\nhim killed in secret she and they would continue their", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 107\\nplotting like a drowning man as long as there was a\\nstraw to grasp at. He knew that he could defeat them,\\nand one of the best ways to do so was to fight them as\\nthey did him, with duplicity, and extend and broaden\\nthe battle and get it into as many mouths, and have it\\nknown to as many people, as possible.\\nThen when he wrote it up, it would authenticate itself\\nand be of so broad, wonderful and almost miraculous a\\nnature that the sale of the story in book form would be\\nassured and extensive, and in this way instead of his\\nbeing killed, they would be the ones killed, and yet\\nthereby benefitted; for they would then be estopped\\nfrom doing like crime again, and they might possibly\\nrepent and be thereby benefitted more than the value of\\nthe whole world.\\nAfter Jezebel had found out his hiding place, and in-\\nformed the Sacramento contingent of the same, she went\\nback to Woodland to await the results of the newly\\nmade plot, while he went about avoiding such a plot by\\nfinding a new place of refuge, which was obtained in a\\nfront room in the third story of the Ebner Hotel on K\\nStreet. Here was the most secure and safest place he\\nhad yet found and after the door was barred by the\\nfurniture, it was a regular fort.\\nHe slept in this room for the remainder of the legis-\\nlative session, though he took only one meal there, for\\nthe very next day he saw this fellow Hogland talking\\nto one of the waiters, and that was enough. He\\nwanted no more of the symptoms that he had experi-\\nenced at the Capitol Hotel and one other place after\\nJudge Armstrong s Dr. Snyder was called in to pre-\\nscribe for him.\\nHe knew about what a poor waiter and the officers\\nwould do in secret for a little money. He had practic-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nally experienced the result of their actions in such cases,\\nand desired no further evidence on this point, so he\\nsimply gave them no chance to poison him, but took\\nhis meals irregularly around the city, first in one place\\nand then in another, at the various restaurants and\\nhotels in the city.\\nThis Robert Sears, who ran across the street the day\\nSpaulding and his killers attacked the victim, was now\\nrooming at the White House on Third Street, and\\nthe victim having had some little talk with him on the\\nstreets, now went to his rooms and there they had a\\ngeneral conversation about this conspiracy, and it was\\nat this time, as well as later, Jbhat Sears told the victim\\nall about the attempt to kill him the day Gas Hunt was\\non the street with his horse and buggy to run the\\nassassins off. And at this time Mr. Sears told the\\nvictim about often seeing Jezebel with Ball, and also at\\ndifferent times with Craige and Fiske in John Powers\\nOyster Cafe away past the middle of the night, lunching\\ntogether, and also of seeing them together in the hall\\nover the Bank of Woodland, while the victim was\\nenrolling clerk at Sacramento and before that time, as\\nwell as in this beautiful court house park.\\nEvery attempt thus far to assassinate him having\\nproved a failure, an effort was next made in that direct-\\nion under the following conditions and plans. The\\nvictim was attorney in a Justice Court law suit then\\npending at Madison, about twelve miles from Woodland\\nin Yolo County. If he could be induced to go out\\nthere and try this action, no doubt he could be secretly\\ndisposed of there where John D. Stephens had so many\\nrelatives and so many business interests. The suit\\ncould be prolonged and the victim could be clandestinely\\nmurdered at night when coming home. So to carry", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 109\\nout such calculation, Jezebel wrote him about the matter\\nand tried to get him there where there was a $20.00\\nfee but he was not looking for that kind of a twenty\\ndollar snap just then, and did not go, so the whole\\nscheme died before maturity.\\nThe active operations of the combination were on the\\nwane with only one active killer in the scene at Sacra-\\nmento and so the end now beginning to appear in sight\\nand the victim feeling the necessity of some more direct\\nconvicting evidence against some of the first originators\\nof this conspiracy, thought he would quietly go to\\nWoodland, and see what he could do toward obtaining\\nsuch information. So he boarded the six o clock even-\\ning train bound for Woodland and going over he rode\\non the platform to evade being seen by any person, who\\nmight possibly give his presence away to the combine.\\nHe departed from the rear end of the last car on the\\nside opposite the depot, and succeeded in getting from\\nthat place up a back stairway to the room Mr. Hunt\\nhad on the opposite side of the hall to his own flat. He\\nclimbed into this room through a back window entirely\\nunobserved, and was then in a perfect position to watch\\nany developments that might occur, such as Mr. Sears\\nhad recently informed him about in regard to Jezebel,\\nBall, etc.\\nThere was a transom over the door in Mr. Hunt s\\nroom, leading into the hall, and the victim by standing\\non a small table which was in the room, had a good\\nview of the hall and part of his own flat. In a very\\nshort time, J. C. Ball came up the stairs and went into\\nhis office. Presently he came out into the hall and\\nwent to the hall door leading to the flat where Jezebel\\nwas. The victim was on the table taking observations.\\nShe said, Why good evening, Mr. Ball. I want to", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nshow you a letter from Mr. Sullivan. Ball entered the\\nroom and she handed him a letter which he read and\\nthen said, He is getting smart, isn t he; but he won t\\nalways be here to talk about our adultery; we ll get\\nhim yet.\\nHere was the direct, incriminating evidence showing\\nboth their adultery and determination to yet kill him,\\nand the power that prevented him from firing at them\\nover the transom and killing them both where they stood\\nhas ever since served as a great source of meditation for\\nhim. Mr. Hunt s door was locked and he could not\\nget to the place where they were without going a very\\nroundabout way the same as he came into the room, and\\nby doing that he might miss some other incriminating\\nremark and he wanted to catch all he could, so he\\nsimply remained where he was.\\nBut he failed to hear anything definite as they moved\\nto another part of the room and conversed in a lower\\ntone for a little while, and then the base libertine and\\nwould-be murderer retired, conscious of his chivalric\\nspirit and many victories in ruining women and breaking\\nup homes. Perhaps he thought of the disruption of the\\nShellhouse family some twenty years before in Placer\\nCounty, of the forged letter that was to send Shellhouse\\nto State s Prison, and of his own indictment for perjury\\nout of which he slipped through a back door technicality\\nthrough the legal acumen of his friend Judge Arm-\\nstrong.\\nWhen the victim went into the flat that night,\\nJezebel at first denied of having seen Ball at all; then\\nverbal shot began to get hot and she capitulated and\\nadmitted everything that she did and he said. But the\\nnext day after she had received an opportunity to see\\nthe beast, she denied that he had said, We ll get him", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. Lll\\nyet. At first she did not realize that these words plead\\nthe guilt of both of them in having tried and intending\\nto try still further to murder him; but under Ball s\\ninstructions she denied these words.\\nBall was not exactly a fool so he now knew the direct\\nevidence was in the breast of the victim showing him to\\nbe a libertine and a would-be murderer. Now he must\\nas a matter of protection kill the victim, or suffer\\nexposure, which, in a sense, was to him as undesirable\\nas death. Therefore, the tried and true of the killers\\nconceived another plot, which is briefly told here.\\nThe victim being conscious through reasoning from the\\nfacts already known that they would now try again to\\nkill him, and also being confident that they could not\\ndp it, and he desiring to add some more infamy to\\nthem, if possible, and possibly get some more direct\\nevidence against them, used Jezebel for this purpose.\\nHe told her that when he went back to Sacramento he\\nwas going to change his room and sleep in the Clunie\\nBuilding on the corner of Eighth and K streets where\\nhis trunk was. So they believed this and made their\\nplans accordingly and to carry out the details of the\\ngeneral plot Ball who was now more desirous than any\\nof them, went over to Sacramento on the same train\\nthe victim did.\\nHe first went to the Capitol Hotel and made some\\nobservations, and then went over to the law offices of\\nArmstrong Hinkson. The judge was reported by\\nHinkson to be indisposed and would not be at his office\\nthat day. By this time, the victim knew that Ball had\\ngone to the judge s home, and was then certain that the\\nsick business of the judge reported at his office was only\\na play for him to keep away so that the victim could\\nnot interview him and thereby possibly get any evidence", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nagainst him that day, and also to help his friend, Ball,\\narrange the details of the killing plot for the coming\\nnight.\\nThe victim was now drowsy and tired and lay down\\non a sofa in Hinkson s office, and in a short time he\\nnoticed that his false friend was unusually nervous and\\nnot at all comfortable in his chair and one did not seem\\nto lit the other. He would writhe and coil in it like the\\ncoiling and uncoiling of a little black viper. He would\\ndrop his head in his right hand and apparently medi-\\ntate. After a while he arose from his chair and\\nremarked as he left, I ll be back in a few minutes.\\nYou stay here and keep office until I return.\\nIn a short time Mr Hinkson returned and soon there-\\nafter an insurance agent came in, and they commenced\\nto talk about the general advantage and humanity there\\nwas in a man s insuring his lif e for his friends, and even\\nfor himself in case he desired to borrow money on the\\npolicy and it was repeated over and over by them that\\na ten dollar premium would secure a two thousand\\ndollar policy in the company they were discussing.\\nAfter the farce had proceeded for sometime, and the\\nvictim did not bite the bait, though they had taken\\nmany furtive glances toward him, they thought it\\nadvisable to drop the curtain on that part of the play,\\nand pretend the viper had decided to secure his family\\nto the extent of a two thousand dollar policy; so a\\nreceipt for the ten dollar premium and the money passed\\nbetween them and after the reptile had made a pretense\\nof examining this receipt the entire pretense was over.\\nThe deceit and duplicity of the incarnate villains im-\\nparted a mingled feeling of laughter and contemptuous\\nhorror to the victim. Their silly device was amusing,\\nwhile their malignant and abandoned hearts, showing", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 113\\nthrough this gauzy plot, filled the victim with a right-\\neous horror. If the insurance plan had carried and the\\ncontemplated murder followed, these fellows would have\\ngotten the whole sum of money and conspirator Jezebel\\nwould have been left.\\nAfter the play of the insurance farce, he went over to\\nthe Clunie building and examined his trunk and found\\nit all right, but the real object in going over there was\\nto cause them to believe he was going to sleep there that\\nnight as he had informed Jezebel before leaving Wood-\\nland; so that they would be sure to arrange their plot\\nand attempt to execute it there that night, because he\\nwas sure of another murder scheme being organized as\\nstated, and he believed it would be easier to outgeneral\\nthem at this place than any other, and after being defeat-\\ned again they might possibly have sense enough to quit.\\nIn the afternoon, he went again to Hinkson s office,\\nand this same Oscar Marshall from Stockton was there.\\nPresently he and Hinkson arose and went into Judge\\nArmstrong s office, the adjoining room. There they\\nwere with Hinkson s back toward the victim, while\\nMarshall was facing him with his hand in his pocket as\\nif ready to draw and shoot, but at this point Hinkson\\nshook his head thereby denoting not to shoot, knowing\\nthat it would be too hazardous there with the victim\\nheeled, besides they would get him that night at the\\nClunie Building so fear for their own lives and fool\\ncalculations on getting him, which meant shooting him\\nthat night, saved a shooting escapade.\\nTo serve his own purpose in making them believe he\\nwould sleep at the Clunie building that night, he went\\nover there again that afternoon and found Mrs. Grice,\\nthe landlady, was going over to Woodland that evening\\nto be gone all night. He mused to himself and said,", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThis is significant; she is getting away from the scene\\nof the intended killing tonight.\\nAnother significant fact was that a man and woman\\nwho had occupied a room for a long time next to his\\nwere then moving out. Perhaps these last two facts\\nstanding alone would not be portentious of any evil, but\\ntaken in connection with the attempts to kill already\\nmade they meant a kind of clearing of the deck for the\\nfight on the coming evening. He now went over to the\\nCapitol Hotel, and there hanging around were many of\\nthe known thugs and conspirators who were looking\\nmurderous and newly determined, so that, unless he\\nwas actually crazy, according to the affidavit of the\\nperjured district attorney of Yolo County, or a fool, he\\nmust certainly know that they were again planning\\nand intending to kill him.\\nAt the Capitol Hotel there was a new enlistment of\\nthugs on watch, which, he understood, was there so as\\nto allay and disipate any suspicions he might have.\\nNow about nine o clock that evening he went to his\\nroom so as to make what observations he could of the\\nimpending battle, and as he approached the building,\\nthere were noticed some young men lounging on the\\nsidewalk in front of the stairs, and as he reached the\\nfoot of the stairs going up, three of the fellows started\\nup ahead of him and went into room No. 9, from which\\nthe man and woman had just moved and there was no\\nfurniture at all in the room.\\nHe went into his room and waited for a long time,\\nand not a sound had been made in the adjoining room\\nwhere the three villains had entered. This thug room\\nand the victim s were connected by a door with a tran-\\nsom over it, and had he laid down and gone to bed, it\\nwould have been an easy matter to have chloroformed", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 115\\nhim over the transom and then gone in and killed him\\nin such a way as to show suicide or, the thugs could\\nhave broken down this door, and perhaps by their\\nnumber dispatched him.\\nThen one Hudnut, a great I Am of a detective, who\\nhad a room just across the hall and who was in with\\nthese killers, would have come in as a witness also, for\\na slice of the money pie. Mrs. Grice was at Woodland\\nthe night of the tragedy, Judge Armstrong would have\\nbeen at home sick, visited by his old friend Ball, who\\nhad come over to buy some lumber that day, and\\nJezebel again out in the country the night of this killing\\nhow wonderfully fine and nice the matter was\\nplanned to have the conspirators all in such position.\\nAway from the scene, and at such distance, they could\\nhave further time in which to determine how to act\\nafter the homicide.\\nNow our victim understood the situation then just as\\nwell as now, and to beat them he simply went out into\\nthe hall and then back to the rear of the building,\\nwhere there were stairs leading down to the street, and\\nskipped away to the Ebner Hotel and stayed all night in\\nsafety and had a good, sound sleep.\\nThe next morning after Ball had skulked from the\\ncity, Judge Armstrong showed up at his office as hale\\nand hearty as ever nature designed he should be, with\\nno indisposition except that of being interviewed by the\\nvictim. The victim afterwards told Jezebel all about\\nthe facts of this plot much more minutely than here\\ndetailed.\\nHe now wanted all the conspirators to know that he\\nwas posted on nearly all their movements and who they\\nall were, and he knew that telling her was the same as\\ntelling them, and even better. Besides he told her that", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nArmstrong s great interest in aiding Ball was because he\\nwas going to loan him a thousand dollars to make his\\ncanvass, if he received the nomination for Supreme\\nJudge.\\nThe victim knew all these conspirators for years; he\\nknew just how their interests dovetailed together, and\\nthereby he was able to spot them and know just how\\nthey would act. They had been his friends in former\\ntimes, but now their greater interests were on the other\\nside, and there they acted even unto attempted murder,\\nbut in such a way as to try to hide their tracks, the\\nsame as any other criminals.\\nUp to this time the conspirators had been detected\\nand thwarted in every plan and plot they could make,\\nand none of them could be worked out with the results\\nthey desired. They could not assassinate the lone crazy\\nman from Yolo, and they must either find some one\\nwith fiendish courage enough to try to kill him in open\\ncombat, or give up, and try to lie out of the whole\\nmatter. To find one with sufficient brute courage to\\nundertake the open killing had been tried by some of\\nthe most desperate murderers and desperate criminals\\non the Coast and they had all weakened or been out-\\ngeneralled. So their hope in that direction was most\\ndiscouraging, and they would have to try some other\\nexpedient, for the present at least.\\nAt last the fertlie brain of Generalissimo conceived a\\nplan of getting him ousted from his clerkship and as\\nthey had him broke aside from that, he would soon be\\nboycotted without money, and then they could perhaps\\ndestroy him in some way. To put this scheme into\\noperation they had Senator Dave McClure from San\\nFrancisco to introduce the following verbatim resolution", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 117\\nResolved, that the office of Enrolling Clerk be\\ndeclared vacant.\\nNow here was a resolution, without a preamble, a\\nreason, or a whereas given to show its necessity, intro-\\nduced by a Senator who voted for the incumbent of\\nthe office, and now seeks to arbitrarily depose him with-\\nout giving any reason therefor.\\nWhat had caused this great Senator now to desire this\\nparticular office declared vacant without assigning any\\nreason for it? Is the reason found in the inference that\\nmay be drawn from the fact that every reading man\\nand woman in the United States circumstantially knows\\nthat some members in every legislative body often sell\\ntheir influence, power, or votes for some material sub-\\nstance, or promise of future reward.\\nThe resolution took its regular course under the rules\\nof the Senate and was referred to the committee, of\\nwhich Senator Lynch from San Francisco was chairman,\\nand there it remained until a committee from the Wood-\\nland conspiracy came over and saw the committee and\\nother senators.\\nThen the resolution was star chambered through the\\ncommittee, and the enrolling clerk unlawfully deprived\\nof a hearing thereon, and the resolution reported back\\nwith a recommendation for passage. But they wait\\nuntil they calculate they have a majority present to pass\\nit and then a viva voce vote was taken on it so that\\nthere might not be a record of how the senators voted on\\nthis infamous and unlawful resolution, and nine out of\\ntwenty-three senators present voted in favor of the\\npassage of the resolution. In other words, nine senators\\nof the State of California voted to have their enrolling\\nclerk placed in a position to be secretly murdered and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nSenators Lynch, Taylor and Cox made three of the nine\\nwho voted in favor of this resolution.\\nIf there is an artist in the world who could portray\\nthe looks and attitude of these murderous senators at the\\ntime of the defeat of this resolution, he would have one\\nof the truest illustrations of depraved, defeated, and\\ndevilish manhood that ever disgraced the high office of\\nsenator. They seemed to shrivel and shrink up like so\\nmany dried shrimps in a Chinese huckster shop. Their\\nfaces contracted and wrinkled up like an old raw hide.\\nTliey looked the synonyms of the worst lot of self-con-\\nvicted libertines that ever went unhung.\\nThere is always some motive that prompts every\\nhuman action, and where was the motive, real or\\nimaginary, that prompted these senators to see so sud-\\ndenly that it was in consonance with their sworn duty,\\nand so strictly in obedience to their oaths of office that\\nthey must summarily depose the Enrolling Clerk of the\\nSenate; contrary to the Statute law of the State, and\\nwithout giving him any chance to be heard, or assigning\\nany reason for their action?\\nIf it was an inordinate greed for money, would it not\\nhave been more honorable for them to have taken their\\ngun and their lives in their hands and gone upon the\\nroad as highwaymen? And would not the State have\\nbeen less disgraced if they had done this than for them\\nto have used their position and high place as senators\\nto cause the murder of their own officer as they tried to\\ndo? Is not the whole State compromised, blighted,\\nand undignified by these political highbinders? Is it\\nnot a travesty upon the civilization of America to have\\nsuch a crime shown, in such peaceful times, by the law-\\nmaking power of the people? But these facts only show", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 119\\nthe character of civilization there is among the practical\\npoliticians of California.\\nCan the crime of murder, sought to be accomplished\\nby a body of State senators acting in their official capa-\\ncity, be overlooked, frowned down, laughed or ridiculed\\nout of consideration by civilized people? Is not any\\nstate in the Union in a measure affected by this dis-\\ngrace of the law making power of a state trying to mur-\\nder a man? But the mere statement of the facts is\\nargument sufficient, and ought to arouse the people to\\na lively interest as to what is going on in a secret way\\nin this God given country of ours.\\nAbout the time the Senate failed to have the victim\\nkilled, the two great political parties had made their\\ncalls for State conventions, and these Solons were\\nanxious to adjourn for a few days to attend to the\\nnecessary political machine work; but being unable to\\nagree among themselves, Governor Stoneman prorogued\\nthe legislature for two weeks so as to give them all ample\\ntime. The legislature having adjourned, he went to\\nWoodland on the morning train, and there at the flat\\nwas Mrs. Miller with her daughter Barbara, of slander\\naffidavit fame.\\nThe victim was not there long until Craige was\\nnoticed from the window scurrying around the streets.\\nHe went out on the street and there was the mellifluous\\nBird with an expression of murderous wisdom and\\ndeep-set determination on his countenance. Just after\\nthat, the victim noticed this thug Conroy coming sliding\\ninto the back door of J. D. Stephens Bank of Woodland.\\nThese indications were enough. They meant there\\nwas another plot to kill on foot, so he thought he would\\ngo up to the flat for a while and wait and see what\\nwould develop, for he was not much afraid since he was", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nnow armed as well as they. At the flat, he found Mrs.\\nMiller still there and he began to tell her about the\\nmany and different ways and plots there had been to\\nmurder him, and during his conversation Jezebel and\\nBarbara would look wild and disconcerted at each other.\\nAfter a little time he happened to go to the window\\nlooking out on First Street, and there on the opposite\\nside of the street near the corner stood Conroy and the\\nnegro McAfee, assassins of July 18th before mentioned,\\nlooking and glaring up where he lived. He called Mrs.\\nMiller to the window and showed her these thugs, and\\nsaid that they had already fixed up another plan to\\ndestroy him that afternoon or evening, for they knew he\\nwas going away to San Francisco in the morning. She\\ncame to the window and looked at them, and he told\\nher about the white man s, Conroy s, being in Hunt s\\nroom on the afternoon of July 17th to kill him, when\\nhe was lying on the lounge.\\nJezebel was writhing under this terrible arraignment,\\nand when she could hold in no longer she said, He\\ntalks like a crazy man, doesn t he, Mrs. Miller? She\\nreplied, Well, I don t know; Mr. Sullivan is a sensible\\nman and this looks very strange. Soon after this\\ncolloquy Mrs. Miller went home and the thugs left their\\nwatching posts, and old Jezebel went over to Mr.\\nTorrence s hotel on the opposite corner.\\nPresently there came a rap on the door and the victim\\nattended the same and found Sheriff Beamer and City\\nMarshall Hoyt in waiting. It was instantly apparent\\nthat the conspiracy through Jezebel had sent them\\nthere, and that the marshal] had come along to take off\\nsome of the curse of the murder Sheriff, but just what\\ntheir real object was at that time he did not know.\\nHe cordially invited them in and asked them to be", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 121\\nseated, and after sitting for what seemed to be minutes,\\nwithout a word being said, (the victim had treated them\\nso nicely that they were entirely dumbfounded) the\\nsheriff finally regained courage enough to say, Sullivan,\\ndon t you know they think you are crazy? He\\nreplied, in substance, Mr. Sheriff, don t reason teach\\nyou that inasmuch as I was elected to the critical and\\nresponsible position of Enrolling Clerk of the State\\nSenate, in the very fire of this insanity slander, when it\\nwas ripe and rife and was being scattered and rooted\\nby all that money and influence could do, and I having\\nheld such position under the greatest adversities that\\nwere ever cast to the lot of man, that this insanity dodge\\nis only for the purpose of ruining me and murdering\\nme to save themselves, and don t you know that I\\nknow you are a party to this and helping them?\\nAt about this point the sheriff said, Well, Sullivan,\\nI guess I shall have to take you. Take me? What\\non? If you have authority which demands my associ-\\nation with you, I will go, otherwise I shall not go unless\\nI desire. The sheriff said, Well, they expect me to\\nlook out for you because they are afraid of you. He\\nreplied, I have never made any threats against them.\\nThe sheriff said, That makes them all the more\\nafraid of you because you have not. I think you had\\nbetter go over with me, and as you are going to San\\nFrancisco in the morning you will have some one to\\nawaken you for the early train.\\nThe victim now sized up the situation about like this\\nThe sheriff had their perjured insanity papers of the\\ndistrict attorney. These conspirators were scared out\\nof their boots for fear that he would kill some of them.\\nAnd if he did not go over and sleep at the jail that\\nnight he would be arrested, and that might possibly", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nbeat him out of his office for the remainder of the\\nsession of the Legislature. Besides, their tool, Judge\\nGaroutte, was free now to act and help them along so\\nhe thought discretion the better part of valor, and said\\nto the sheriff, that he would not go with either of them,\\nalthough he would go over alone in a little while. The\\npromise (of the crazy man) was all they wanted, and\\nleft his house. Shortly, he went over to the jail and\\nslept there that night under the conditions and for the\\nreason stated.\\nAs soon as the victim arrived at the jail the sheriff\\ncommenced coaxing him for his pistol, and as an excuse\\nsaid that it would not be right for an outsider to sleep\\nin the jail with firearms and he further voluntarily\\npromised upon his word as Sheriff of Yolo County, as\\na man and as a Mason, that if the victim would give up\\nthe pistol, he would express it to him at the Brooklyn\\nHotel, San Francisco, that very day.\\nSo thinking that the sheriff would not openly violate\\nhis word under such promises, the victim let him have\\nthe pistol, knowing that he could buy another at the\\nBay if the sheriff failed to keep his promise the victim\\nalso taking his chances in getting to the city without this\\nfirearm. The sheriff did not send the pistol as he\\npromised, and the victim was not able to get it from\\nhim until three months afterwards, and then not until\\nhe was about to sue the sheriff for converting it to his\\nown use.\\nThe real motive the sheriff had in depriving the victim\\nof this pistol was to aid the conspiracy in killing him\\nby thus depriving him through his official position and\\npower, and deceit, of the means of self-defense.\\nIt was now getting late at night, so he wrapped him-\\nself in the blankets that had enshrouded the forms of", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 123\\nmany felons, and there in that dark and lonely cell he\\nlay engulfed in the thoughts of the many murderous\\nplots that had been made against his life, and how the\\nreal cause of all them was, in the first instance, the\\ndevices of a vile and wicked woman. And he thought\\nhow the torch of destruction had been lighted by her\\nand how it was then burning in the breast of some of\\nthe mightiest in the land, with nothing seemingly able\\nto quench it but the murder of the innocent victim, who\\nlay there that night in a prison cell through the murder-\\ning agency of the sheriff of the county. What a\\npitiable thought for our civilization in the State of the\\nGolden West. Finally through the sheer exhaustion of\\nhis torturing condition he swooned away into a refresh-\\ning slumber and was up and ready for the morning train.\\nCraige and his wife were on board the train at the\\nWoodland depot in the morning bound for San Fran-\\ncisco. With this exception, which was ominous,\\nnothing of note occurred until at Suisun half way\\nbetween Woodland and San Francisco. There three\\nthugs came aboard the train and sat down in the same\\ncar with the victim.\\nHe very soon discovered that he was the object of\\ntheir mission on the train. They were very poor actors\\nin a murder plot, for they at once gave themselves away\\nby their furtive glances at him, made with such an\\nawkward attempt to conceal the same from his notice\\nthat a school boy might have detected their intentions.\\nCraige formerly lived in San Francisco and being\\nposted on thugs and fast women, it was a very easy\\nmatter for him through the immense wealth of his wife\\nand father-in-law, Stephens, to have these thugs in-\\nformed by telegraph to come up from San Francisco\\nthat morning and meet him on the train, where further", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nand final arrangements could be made to follow and\\nmurder the victim at the best and safest place to do so.\\nFrom even a slight consideration of the circumstances,\\nit is an easy matter to see that that was the situation\\npresented there that morning.\\nCraige soon went into the baggage car and two of\\nthese thugs followed him in there, where they all\\nremained until the train was on the ferry boat crossing\\nthe river at Benicia. Now the victim got off the car\\nand was walking around on the boat. When he passed\\nthe saloon on the boat, he saw the thugs and Craige in\\nthere drinking. Upon being discovered, Craige im-\\nmediately went on to the car, and the trio commenced\\nto dance and sing, and one of them was heard to say,\\nWe ll set em up in high stacks after you are planted.\\nThis remark he knew of course was meant for him,\\nand he passed away and left these reveling fiends exult-\\ning over their contemplated gain of a sudden raise of\\nmoney, by committing murder a horrible thought, yet\\ntrue.\\nThe train now soon left the boat and rolled away for\\nSan Francisco. It soon arrived at Vallejo Junction,\\nwhere there was a boat which crossed this part of the\\nbay carrying passengers to Vallejo. The victim here left\\nthe train just as it pulled out and took the boat for\\nVallejo, and thought he had thus evaded the plans and\\npresence of the thugs and conspirators for that day, at\\nleast. But not so, the train he had just left met an up\\ntrain at San Pablo, and the thugs, having seen him at\\nthe Junction as the train they were on was fast moving\\naway, now at the first opportunity came back where he\\nwas at Vallejo Junction, waiting for the boat to take\\nhim to Vallejo.\\nThe boat waited for the passengers from these two", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 125\\ntrains, and had he known such fact he would have kept\\nout of sight of the thugs, and then they would not have\\nknown where he was and would not have returned as\\nthey did. He was now apparently in another dangerous\\ndilemma, not exactly between the devil and the deep sea,\\nbut between the devils and the deep bay, on a ferryboat\\nwith these thugs, whom he knew were there to kill him\\nfor money the victim having been disarmed at Wood-\\nland by the sheriff for the purpose of giving these fellows\\na chance to murder him. Yet he was not much afraid,\\nfor he knew that they dare not shoot among the passen-\\ngers and all he had to do was to keep well among them\\nto be comparatively safe.\\nThe victim now commenced to talk in presence of the\\nthugs, to an innocent fellow passenger, about the town\\nof Cloverdale which was a long way up from the city of\\nNapa on the line of this railroad from Vallejo. The\\nconversation was had before the boat had commenced to\\ncross over to Vallejo, and after the boat had crossed the\\nbay and the passengers had taken the train for Napa and\\npoints further north on the road, the thugs of course\\nbeing in close proximity, he again began talking to\\na passenger about Cloverdale and other points of interest\\nin the mountains, where one might find good fishing\\nand hunting in some lonely wild spot.\\nThis had the desired effect, for the murderers acted as\\nthough they surely thought they were soon going to find\\nthe victim a lonely fisherman on some isolated stream,\\nor hunting in some wild jungle in the mountain wood.\\nBy the time the train arrived at Napa City, they were\\nthoroughly saturated with the idea that he was going to\\nCloverdale and then to other points in the mountains to\\nfish and hunt.\\nUpon arriving at Napa City, he went out on the plat-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nform of the car and stood there looking as though he\\nwere a passenger who was going further. He tried to\\nmake it appear to the assassins that he was bound for\\nCloverdale. In due time the bell commenced to ring,\\nannouncing the departure of the train. It was now\\nmoving and the driver of a buss at the depot was\\narranging himself in his seat preparatory to driving\\naway.\\nThe occasion being now presented he took advantage\\nof the same by jumping from the train and hurriedly\\ntook a seat in the buss which drove quickly away, and\\nthe three thugs then Looking from the fast moving train\\nbegan to realize that the person they were following to\\nget a chance to kill was now being, surely and swiftly\\nseparated from them, and there being no reverse train\\nfor them to return on as at San Pablo, their murder\\nmoney would be forever gone.\\nIn the afternoon along came the train from Calistoga\\nbound for Vallejo and he went aboard. He looked\\nthrough the cars, but the human hyenas were not aboard,\\nso without further let or hindrance he arrived in San\\nFrancisco in due time, and repaired to the Brooklyn\\nHotel, but as he really expected, he found that Sheriff\\nBeamer had not sent his revolver, so he went out and\\nprocured another, for he well knew that they would try\\nto waylay him in this large city.\\nOn the fifth day of the victim s sojourn in the city,\\nhe saw a newspaper reporter from the Woodland\\nDemocrat, who asked him if he had seen Frank\\nRhaum in the city. He had not, and on being so in-\\nformed, the reporter said that he had just seen him at\\nthe Russ House, and away went the victim to the Russ\\nHouse. On entering the hotel office, he saw Mr.\\nRhaum and Al Dedman engaged in a low, earnest con-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 127\\nversation, and as soon as they espied the victim they\\nceased talking and walked down the stairs and out of\\nthe hotel, without even speaking to the victim.\\nAlthough they were well acquainted with him, they\\napparently were trying to avoid him. He then did a\\nlittle detective work by shadowing them to Dedman s\\ndive on Kearney Street, where they both entered.\\nThese men were of notoriously bad character. Mr.\\nRhaum was an ex- sheriff of Yolo County at Woodland,\\nCalifornia, and was there tried for the secret murder\\nof his deputy, John Maltby, a few years before. He\\nexpended all his money in defense of his life and was\\nnow broke, and, of course, wanted some of the fodder\\nwith which the conspiracy were feeding these murder\\nbeasts. Dedman had recently lived at Woodland,\\nwhere the victim saved him from prison by acting as his\\nattorney; and a few years before that time Dedman was\\ntried for a secret attempt to murder two women at\\nKnight s Landing in Yolo County, California. Now\\nthe victim knowing all these facts about this pair, and\\nbeing certain that Rhaum did not have any legitimate\\nbusiness at San Francisco, is it any wonder that he\\nhastened away to the Russ House to find out what he\\ncould about them?\\nDedman had seen the victim in the city since his\\nrecent arrival several times -before his conference with\\nMr. Rhaum at the Russ House, but never spoke to him.\\nNow he was constantly putting himself in his immediate\\npresence and attempting to engage him in conversation,\\nand continued to do so for three or four days, until the\\nvictim considered the matter had gone far enough, and\\nsaid, See here, Dedman, I know as well as you do\\nwhat your intentions are toward me. If you had the\\ngratitude of a dog, you would try to help me and save", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nme instead of trying to get the drop on me to kill me\\nfor the promise of a few dollars, which you would never\\nget even if you could do the job. I saw you with\\nRhaum and knew he gave you a few dollars and has\\npromised you a big lot if you could catch me, but you\\nnever can. I am now heeled as well as you, and if you\\nwant it out begin right here, and if you don t begone\\nand never look at me again.\\nDedman said, Sullivan you are right, and these\\nfellows at Woodland are stiffs and bilks. They never\\npay a man as they agree. At this the victim walked\\naway, and that was the last time he ever saw Dedman.\\nRhaum was known to be acting with the conspiracy\\nat Woodland, and the logic of the situation was, that\\nsince Craige s three thug plot had been detected and out-\\ngeneralled, the conspiracy had sent Rhaum down from\\nWoodland to have Dedman kill the victim.\\nThey assumed that because the victim had defended\\nDedman, hence he must be some particular friend to\\nhim, and that through friendship Dedman could induce\\nhim into some place where he could be killed. This\\npair having met at the Russ House and been unex-\\npectedly discovered by the victim, they hurried away to\\nDedman s dive to finish the bargain, where Rhaum gave\\nhim a few dollars for expenses and promised him a\\nlarge sum upon the successful completion of the killing\\njob. Then Rhaum went back to Woodland so as to be\\nas far away from the murder as possible, for, if close by\\nit, the decent people of Woodland would surely sus\\npect him.\\nNothing further of note occurred at San Francisco,\\nand he returned to Woodland preparatory to assuming\\nhis duties as Enrolling Clerk of the Senate, and the next\\nday the Legislature reconvened, and from that time on", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 129\\nuntil the close of the session there was nothing occurred\\nthat would merit noting here. During the closing days\\nof the session, the victim commenced devising some\\nplan by which he might get some further direct and un-\\ndisputable evidence of the guilt of the first originators\\nof this conspiracy namely, Ball, Craige, and Jezebel\\nand in this relation he thought of a woman residing at\\nFolson, whom he had gratuitously defended against the\\npersecutions of a wealthy person, while he was residing\\nat Folson.\\nThe next evening after the Legislature adjourned,\\nsine die, the victim went up to Folson and interviewed\\nthis woman, and he gave her detail after detail of the\\nplots and attempts to murder him, and particularly\\ndescribed the poison plot of July 14th, when Jezebel\\ngave him the poison. Of course she felt shocked and\\nhorrified at such wickedness, and wished she could only\\nbe of some help to him so as to pay him for his previous\\ndefense of her.\\nAt this point, he detailed his plan of action, which is\\nbriefly told as follows: She was to take the morning\\ntrain for Sacramento and go direct to the drug store of\\nJ. S. Meredith and tell him that the victim was a worth-\\nless wretch that he had been at Folson and talked\\nhorridly about him and accused him of trying to decoy\\nhim into his house on M Street to have him murdered\\nthat he had not only talked about his wife, but had\\nslandered her since he moved from Folson; that she\\nhad a notion to go to Woodland and see all the parties,\\nand if she could get them to back her up, she could\\neasily give him a dose that would fix him up for the\\nnext country right away.\\nThe victim told her that Meredith being broke and\\nalready in the conspiracy and anxious to get some", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nmoney out of it, would fall in with her idea and might\\ngo to Woodland with her so as to get closer to the com-\\nbine and its money. At Woodland, she was to go to\\nJezebel s house, and after properly getting into her\\npresence, say, that the victim was up at Folson slander-\\ning her, Ball, Craige, and others, and to generally broil\\nhim until he was ignominiously done, and finally pro-\\npose that if they would stand in and protect her, she\\ncould and would give him a dose of poison and if they\\nwould tell her what to get or write it down she would\\nget it at Meredith s drug store, but that she would like\\nsome little slip of paper with their names on so that she\\nwould be sure of protection after he was dead.\\nThen she was to come back and get the poison, and\\nthe victim would be on the watch and get the paper\\nand poison from her and then he, would have some\\nmore direct evidence of their guilt. But again the best\\nlaid plans of mice and men they aft gang aglee.\\nThis same John McComber of Folson was spying out\\nfor the combine, and instead of his former friend com\\ning to Sacramento, Mr. McComber came, and went to\\nWoodland and saw the millionaire Stephens, who came\\nover to Brigadier Bugby s office and there they sought\\nto plan for the victim s arrest on a criminal charge, but\\ngave up before they began.\\nThis little plan doesn t amount to much only to show\\nthat the victim never had a friend but that this criminal\\nand money combine could control and cause them to\\neven conspire against his life. What was true in this\\nparticular instance would be true with any poor person\\nwho had money against him, seeking their ruin either\\nmorally, financially, or to the extent of murder, and\\nthe quicker the poor understand this the better able\\nthey will be to protect themselves.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 131\\nAfter the failure to entrap the enemy as last related,\\nthe victim went over to Woodland, and then Jezebel\\nleft the flat and took rooms at Mr. Torrence s Hotel\\nopposite Ball Craige s law offices.\\nThere was still murder in the air, and that night the\\nvictim nailed down the windows and barred the doors\\nso that entrance could not be made unless the doors or\\nwindows were smashed; and he very confidently\\nthought that whoever smashed them would not smash\\nany the next day. So as soon as it was dark he lay\\ndown and went to sleep, and about half past eleven\\no clock he was awakened by a number of persons com-\\ning up the stairs.\\nThey made a great and unusual noise and entered\\nBall Craige s law offices adjoining. Judging from\\ntheir footsteps and number of different voices, there\\nwere as many as six persons. After noting the compar-\\natively early time it was, he did not then think it meant\\nanything wrong, until they had swept and swept enough\\nto do the office a dozen times or more, and then they\\nwould come out into the hall and sweep, then wait and\\nkeep quiet, and then begin again. By this time, he\\nwas up and dressed, with a good revolver in each hand,\\nrather courting than fearing an attack.\\nNow down the hall they would go, then back again\\nand sweep and slash and noise around. Then they\\nstopped and held a low, whispered talk in front of the\\nvictim s main entrance door in the hall. Then they\\nmoved up the hall toward the head of the stairs and\\nstamped the floor and kicked the sides of the base\\nboards. At this juncture, the victim stood upon a chair\\nand looked over the transom and saw the perjured negro\\nLinn, the negro murderer of July 18th, and a white\\nman glaring at the entrance door to his flat.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThe victim then quietly but but quickly made\\na kind of fort out of the bed and furniture, in the\\nshape of a V, the apex pointing toward the door; then\\nhe unbarred the door and left it so it was only locked\\nwith a common lock that could be burst open with only\\na slight shoulder shove. Then he planted himself in\\nthe apex of the improvised fort and would cough and\\nmake a noise so they would be sure he was there.\\nThe victim knew the enemies plan was to aggravate\\nhim so he would open his door and come out into the\\nhall, where they could kill him, and then they could\\nall swear that he was the aggressor, and commenced the\\nfight.\\nHe built his fort and fixed the door so that it could\\neasily be smashed in, thinking perhaps when they found\\nthey could not get him out, they would break in, and\\nthen he would commence shooting; and he felt confi-\\ndent that he could pile up these dead niggers in his\\nroom before they could get to him. or discover the\\nambush; and thus he would have them dead in his\\nroom which would be conclusive evidence of their guilt\\nand his innocence, and the real conspirators would be\\nexposed on the trial that would follow.\\nBut the assassins not being able to carry out the plot\\naccording to instruction, and not having brains enough\\nto think of breaking in the door or courage enough to\\ndo so if they thought of it, evacuated the battle field\\nwith only defeat to report to Generalissimo who had\\nslunk away to Colusa County after this great plan of\\nbattle had been made, and left its execution in the\\nhands of his law partner, who fell through himself at\\nthe Opera House. So who was the crazier man, the\\none who made this murder plot, or the victim who\\ndefeated it?", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 133\\nThe next evening the victim retired very early with\\nhouse fortified as in the beginning of the preceding\\nnight and had not much of any fears of another attempt.\\nAlong about one o clock at night, he awoke and every-\\nthing was as still as death. He lay there thinking of\\nthe feelings that must pervade the breasts of brave men\\nas they marched forth to battle and to die, and how in\\na much more torturing manner he had so many times\\nexperienced the feelings of expected murder and death,\\nand that there never was a pen that could describe\\nemotions and feelings of a man under such circum-\\nstances.\\nHe studied on the degenerate attributes of a moral\\ntraitor; that is, one who, while professing friendship,\\nat the same time, was planning to secretly murder you,\\nand in this connection he ran down the category of\\ncriminals such as murderers for money, pirates, hired\\nassassins, etc. and none could compare in degenerate\\ndepravity with the moral traitor.\\nAnd then he considered how he was, and had been\\nfor the last several months with such wretches all\\nsecretly planning and seeking the life blood in his veins.\\nAs he lay there cogitating his situation in this manner,\\nhe heard some one coming up the stairs. He listened\\nand they came up and stopped at the head of the stairs,\\nso he reached up and took one of his pistols. The\\nvictim knew the person to be a man by his step, and he\\nremained motionless for as much as five minutes at the\\nhead of the stairs; then he moved along until he was\\ndirectly opposite to his bed room door, which opened\\ninto the hall, and there stopped.\\nThe victim had by this time swung his feet out of bed\\nand was sitting on its edge, waiting for further develop-\\nments, but the fellow after hanging around for a few", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nmoments went off down the stairs. It was afterwards\\nascertained that this midnight caller was George\\nRhaum, brother of our Frank Rhaum, and that he had\\nbeen all the night getting on a whiske} r brave to come\\nthere and murder the victim for the money his maudlin\\nbrain thought he might get if he did so. But the fact\\nis he never had the courage of his desire and when the\\ntime came for him to make the attempt the strain was\\nso great on him that it killed the liquor in him, and he\\nslunk away further, he never would have at that time\\nor at any other time stood a ghost of a show to have\\ndone so.\\nGeneralissimo had now lost his nerve and was hiding\\nat his ranch in Colusa County, leaving Stephens and\\nhis crew to tremble with fear of being shot on sight\\nthough the victim had never uttered a word of threat\\nagainst any of them. This was one thing they were\\nafraid of; if he would let his mind be known then they\\nmight be able to form some plan of action. So to find\\nout what he thought, they conceived and tried to\\nexecute a brilliant plan by sending their servile assessor,\\nHuston, out to the little town of Winters and bring in\\nDave Sullivan, who being of the same name could\\ncertainly blarney the victim up and draw him out.\\nDave came and commenced by telling the victim all\\nabout how he had outgeneraled them all and done them\\nup to the queen s taste, and how glad he was, and went\\non at a great rate praising the fine qualities of the victim,\\nuntil he, in his mind, had the poor victim galvanized\\nwith his own greatness, and then came the question the\\nconspiracy had sent him there to find out: Say,\\nSullivan, are you going to kill these fellows, or are you\\ngoing to law them? And what kind of action or pro-\\nceeding are you going to begin? The victim parried", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 135\\nthese questions and let his brother Irish friend and\\nnamesake unwind his blarney ball.\\nPoor Dave at that time was not a bad man and would\\nnot have mortally harmed the victim, but just wanted\\nto stand in where the material help was. After Dave\\nwas tired pumping, the victim took up the handle and\\ncommenced by giving him some of his blarney and\\nsaid, Now, Dave. I know you take a great pride in\\nthe name of Sullivan so tell me what you know about\\nthose fellows trying to ruin me?\\nWell, I ll tell you; they think I am a friend of\\nyours, and so I am and they have plenty of money\\nbut you have to earn every cent you get. Well, one\\nnight during the Harlan trial I was down in Powers\\nsaloon drinking, but I was not drunk at all, and\\nRhaum, Ball, Craige, Sprague, Judge Garoutte, Gas\\nHunt, were all there, and I heard them talking about\\nsome one s being crazy. They were talking very low\\nand in a kind of whisper. I saw they didn t want out-\\nsiders to hear, and I was kind of lying in a chair and\\npretending to be asleep so as to hear. I found out they\\nwere talking about you, and Ball said, Who is that-\\nfellow in the chair? Some one said, Oh; he is drunk;\\nhe don t know anything; let him go, and then Ball\\ncame over and pulled up my hat and looked me in the\\nface, and said, That fellow don t know, don t you fool\\nyourself.\\nThey talked some more and I found out that they\\nwere trying to fix up a job to send you to the asylum.\\nThey wanted to get rid of you on account of your wife.\\nAfter a while someone said, Let s go into the room\\nhere and fix this thing up, so they went in, and that\\nis all I really know any more than Huston brought me\\nhere to find out about what you are going to do, and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ncautioned me not to let anybody know that he came\\nafter me. He also said that he was going to keep out of\\ntrouble.\\nThe victim keenly realized that in order to thoroughly\\nconvince the public that so many persons of such high\\nstanding had been guilty of so much criminality he\\nought to try to get as much direct and incriminating\\nevidence against them as was possible to obtain; and\\nthat as he had now worn out their insanity slander and\\nproved that to be false, the people ought to be satisfied\\nthat any reasonable thing he might say about these con-\\nspirators was true. He also realized that if he could\\nnow, after all that had happened, scare them into\\narresting him for insanity, and thus get them into court,\\nand placed upon record where they could not lie out of\\nit, and there in court again defeat them, they could\\nnever gainsay the main features of the record and that\\nsuch proceeding and result would authenticate the tale of\\nhis persecution and attempted secret murder story. For\\none or the other must be true he was either crazy, or\\nthey had tried to ruin and murder him.\\nHe reasoned that in such a court proceeding, he\\nwould be the defendant and entitled to the process of\\nthe court to obtain his witnesses, and that he would\\nhave the whole army subpoenaed and sworn and their\\ntestimony reported, and while all would now lie about\\nit, .they could not all come into court and swear to lies\\nwhere there were so many complicated facts, without a\\nbeing detected and shown up before the people. He\\nfurther reasoned that possibly some of them would tell\\nthe truth and then he would have attempted murder\\nestablished by their own friends. He knew that they\\nwould have as many doctors and lawyers to show that\\nhe was crazy as they desired, and that Judge Garoutte?", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 137\\ntheir ready-made court, would decide just as they\\ndesired, and adjudge him insane and order him confined\\nin an asylum, and then after he was adjudged insane\\nby the ready-made Judge, he would dump the whole\\ngang, court, doctors, and all overboard.\\nBut how could he do this? Here it is Up to that\\ntime, there never was a known case in the State where\\na man had a jury trial after he had been found crazy by\\na court; and this band of murderers having spent so\\nmuch more time in committing crime than in reading\\nlaw, did not know there was a law in the State entitling\\na person to a jury trial in such a case. So he planned\\nand reasoned that when the proper time came he would\\nreverse the perjured court and doctors by a verdict of\\nsoundness, and that he would have them done up in\\ngood and undisputable shape.\\nSo to carry out the plan just outlined, he commenced\\ntalking freely to different people and explaining to them\\nthe details of the murder plots, and informed this Mr.\\nTorrence of the Woodland Capitol Hotel, Assemblyman\\nL. B. Adams of Yolo County. Melt Inyard, Anthony\\nSweeny, and many others about the whole matter, and\\nafter a few days talking on this general plan to incite\\nthem to cause his arrest, he thought it about time to\\nplay the last card by mailing a certain letter along the\\nsame line.\\nThe facts about mailing this letter came about in this\\nway The victim s mail had been tampered with in the\\nWoodland postofiice ever since this conspiracy began.\\nTo illustrate, he had addressed a letter to a certain\\nplace in Montana Territory at the Woodland postofiice,\\nand the words Montana Territory were erased and\\nNebraska inserted in their place so that the letter went\\nto the place of the same name in Nebraska, and from", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nthere of course it was sent to the dead letter office, and\\nafterwards was returned to the victim. He then and\\never since has had the written evidence of this mail\\ntampering. Now upon the strength of their own crimes,\\nhe prepared a deco} T letter fictitiously addressed to\\nDetective John Bassett at San Francisco. It contained\\nnine pages of fool s cap paper, and explained all about\\nhow Bassett s partner had been to Woodland in the\\nnight to see him, and how a certain millionaire lawyer\\nwas helping them, and would furnish all the money\\nnecessary to prosecute these murderers, and how in a\\nfew days they would all be arrested with all the plans\\nand details and names of the persons exposed.\\nSo to make sure that the conspirators would get the\\nletter, the victim informed Jezebel about the same and\\nwhen he should mail it; and he knew this letter, with\\nwhat he had told the people, would cause the con-\\nspirators as a last resort to have him arrested. So one\\nmorning he mailed the letter, and of course it was soon\\nread by the contingent then at Woodland. There was\\nhurrying and scurrying all around among the con-\\nspirators, and it is easily imagined how they now con-\\nsulted and said:\\nThe victim must be subdued in some way or ruin\\nwill follow all of us. Homes, families, reputation,\\nand money were now at stake and must be protected.\\nIt made no difference if the God of Heaven and the\\nCreator of all had been outraged and set at defiance,\\nthere was nothing for consideration now but worldly\\ninterest and self-protection. It did seem as if God\\nhimself was after them by reason of all their defeats\\nwith so much money to back them. Many of them\\ncould now surely be sent to prison for their bold crimes\\nunless this crazy man was sent to an asylum. He now", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 139\\nhad the millionaire backer to help him, as they had\\nseen in the letter, and action must be taken at once.\\nSo under these harrowing conditions of the guilty cul-\\nprits, they sent for the Generalissimo of the band, now\\nhiding on his Colusa ranch balancing on the sharp,\\nprecipitating edge of hope and fear, hoping that the\\nwinds of the black blast would soon blow over, and that\\nhis recent crimes would not find him out, fearing only\\nof the judgment of the people upon his exposure.\\nUpon his arrival, the band assembled, and from the\\nbest information obtainable, he, in substance, said; I\\nknew after our first attempts at poisoning him, we would\\nhave a hard time to ever kill him, and particularly\\nwithout getting caught. I have long since given up the\\nidea that he could be killed in secret, and I came to this\\nconclusion when he beat my Clunie House plot with\\nJudge Armstrong.\\nYou see how he worked it with our female friend he\\nwould tell her what he wanted us to know and keep\\nthe rest to himself. You fellows thought you knew his\\nwhole mind through her; but to your sorrow you have\\nfound out that you did not.\\nYou see by this letter to Bassett that we are now in\\na closer place than we have ever had him, for murder\\nis something that the people will not stand, and though\\nwe did not kill him we all tried hard enough, and if the\\nstory of our actions ever gets before the people, we are\\ndone for forever. We may keep the most of our property,\\nbut before the people we will be killed if not sent to\\nprison. And now as a matter of self-interest we had\\nbetter have him arrested for insanity, and if we only\\nget him into the asylum for a day, he 11 be broken down\\nand nobody will believe anything he says; and even if", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwe fail, the fact of the charge against him will hurt him\\nsomewhat.\\nBut you know we can t fail; our judge will do as we\\nsay that s what he was elected to do. When I received\\nthe news of the Bassett letter on my ranch up in Colusa,\\nI knew we must face the music and dance correctly, or\\nbe ostracized forever. Now the best thing to do is to\\nhave Tommy Gibson, little Tommy, who brought the\\npoison to Dr. Dick, make affidavit that the victim is\\ncrazy, and we will get him landed for a while, anyway,\\nand, as I said, that will break him down, and it may be\\nfor a few dollars we can keep him there for life. So\\nthe conference broke up and the plan was attempted to\\nbe put into execution.\\nIt was now October 8, 1886, and the victim had just\\nleft his office and was going over to the Court House to\\nget a copy of the district attorney s insanity affidavit,\\nwhen he observed Sheriff Beamer approaching him with\\na quick, important step, his face beaming with delight,\\nhis eyes sparkling with joy, his mouth grinning with\\nsatisfaction, and in a sense stretched down to his boots.\\nAs he met the victim he said, They are after you\\nagain; I will have to take you this time sure. They\\nwant you for insanity. Who do you mean by they?\\nWhy, you know those fellows at the bank corner.\\nI expect you mean Ball, Craige, Stephens, Fiske,\\nand the whole gang? Yes; that s about the size\\nof it. Well, I ll go; show me your papers. I\\nhaven t got any papers with me; there is a new com-\\nplaint made; it is in my office. Have you a war-\\nrant? No: there has been no warrant issued.\\nYou know that you have no right to arrest me with-\\nout a warrant, but I don t care about that; I ll go up to\\nthe Craft House and get my dinner, and then go over", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 141\\nand be a crazy man for a while. All right, said the\\nsheriff; I know that you will do as you agree. So\\nafter dinner, the man who had planned his own arrest\\nwent over to the sheriff s office to have them play crazy\\nman with him for a while to prove their own guilt.\\nThen he asked to see the complaint made against him,\\nand found as he expected, that it was sworn to by young\\nTommy Gibson, who brought the poison to Dr. Dick on\\nJuly 14th with which the victim was poisoned. He\\nread the complaint over carefully and found that it was\\nfatally defective, because it did not comply, even sub-\\nstantially, with the requirements of the statutes in such\\ncases. But he kept the knowledge of this defect closely\\nto himself; for he wanted to take them all by surprise\\nand cast all the odium on them that he could before the\\nnumber he expected would be present at the hearing.\\nHe talked with the sheriff and found out that the Court\\nwas going to proceed with the farce the next day, and\\nthat twenty witnesses had been subpoenaed to swear\\nagainst him.\\nFeeling perfectly secure by reason of this defective\\ncomplaint, he complacently thought what obloquy and\\nshame he would cast upon them the next day, when in\\nopen court before all the lawyers, witnesses and people\\npresent, he would move and compel the court to\\nreluctantly discharge him from arrest, by reason of the\\ninsufficient complaint against him. And what a fool\\nhe would make of their district attorney, who had\\nsworn to a complaint that he did not now dare to stand\\nupon, and then had drawn another that did not comply\\nwith the law. The people would certainly think that if\\nany person was crazy and ought to be sent to an asylum\\nit was the district attorney instead of the victim.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "142 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nBesides the witnesses would not feel like swearing quite\\nso strong against him.\\nThis evening old Jezebel came over to the Sheriff s\\noffice, smiling with satisfaction. The sheriff and one or\\ntwo others were there, and after getting herself squared\\naround for action she opened her fire by saying: Well,\\nthey have got you, havn t they? Now you will soon be\\nin the asylum where you ought to be, and I guess then\\nyou will keep your mouth shut. He let her go on in\\nthis strain until her string was about out, and then in\\nterms he said:\\nYou, they, nor all he corrupt power in the state can.\\nnever send me to an asylum. The truth is mighty\\nand will prevail. Do not think because these parties\\nown the court, district attorney, and half of the county\\nthat they can for a moment own me or the facts. There\\nis not one of you that thinks for a moment of the trap,\\nyou are in or that you yourselves will be buried in the\\ngrave which you are digging for me. She said,\\nWhy, you are as happy as a clam; I expected to see\\nyou all broken up. Then one of the officers spoke and\\nsaid, Sullivan is a brick, isn t he? He retorted, No\\nbut you will find that I am a whole brick house with\\nrooms to let before I am through with you all yet.\\nWith this the modern Jezebel retired from the insanity\\nscene forever.\\nAt 10 a. m. the next day the Superior Court of Yolo\\nCounty convened Judge Garoutte presiding, The\\ntwenty witnesses were present with anxious and bated\\nbreath for a chance to swear away the liberty of the\\ninnocent for the favor of the mighty. There were only\\nsix lawyers with a few officials, belonging to the Court\\nHouse, present. From this sparse attendance upon\\nsuch a sensational proceeding, he was satisfied that the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 143\\nconspiracy had been keeping the hearing as secret as\\npossible, so there might be but a few people present\\nto witness this outrage on justice, for they well knew\\nthat it would not bear the light of decency shining upon\\nit. Judge Garoutte on taking the bench ordered the\\nsheriff to open court.\\nThe Sheriff with his customary assumption of dignity\\nejaculated, Hear ye! hear ye! hear ye! the Superior\\nCourt of Yolo County is now open pursuant to adjourn-\\nment.\\nCourt Mr. Clerk, what s on the calendar for hearing\\nthis morning?\\nClerk The matter of P. M. Sullivan, an alleged\\ninsane person.\\nCourt I see the doctors and witnesses; are all pres-\\nent. We will proceed the witnesses will stand up and\\nbe sworn which was done.\\nDefendant May it please Your Honor, before taking\\nany testimony in this matter, I\\nCourt You will please be seated, sir; the Court\\ncannot hear you.\\nDefendant May it please Your Honor, I am the\\ndefendant in this proceeding, and I\\nCourt You cannot be heard; it would be prepos-\\nterous to allow an insane man to be heard in court.\\nDefendant Sane or insane, sir, is the question to be\\ndetermined here, and I have a natural and constitutional\\nright to be heard in my own defense. I am, and have\\nbeen for years, an honorable attorney of all the courts\\nof this State, and to say it is preposterous to hear me in\\nmy own defense, is a proposition without a parallel is\\ncontrary to natural right, the rules of jurisprudence, the\\nstate constitution.\\nCourt If you have any motion to make, or anything", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nof a strictly legal nature bearing on the case, I will hear\\nthat.\\nDefendant Most respectfully I have, and have twice\\nbeen on the point of presenting the same, when I was\\nprevented by the Court. I move that the complaint\\ncharging me with insanity be dismissed, and that I\\nforthwith and forever be discharged. The ground of\\nmotion is, that this complaint, charging me with insanity,\\ndoes not comply with the requirements fo Section 2210\\nof the Political Code upon which it is based. That\\nSection requires complaints of this character must be\\nmade before a magistrate, with judicial functions, and\\nthis complaint is made before Frank Sprague, the dis-\\ntrict attorney, who is not now, and by the votes of th e\\npeople and grace of God, never will be a magistrate.\\nThe court looked around at the lawyers present, who\\nwere smiling, thus in dicating that the alleged insane man\\nhad the best of the Court, district attorney, and all the\\ncombination of criminals. The Court grasped the\\nsituation and without ado said: The defendant s point\\nis well taken it would only be a waste of time to try\\nto hold a man on a defective complaint of this kind, for\\nhe would certainly obtain a Writ of Habeas Corpus and\\nupon the same obtain his liberty. The defendant is\\ndischarged.\\nThe victim then arose and with more grace than he\\never before practiced, thanked the Court and bowed\\nhimself out. But as he was walking away from the bar\\nof the Court, the Judge said, to young Gibson, the\\naccuser, Do you want to make another complaint?\\nGibson said, I don t know. Court: Well, if you\\ndo come here and I will write one and swear you to\\nit. Gibson sat still and speechless. The Court again\\nsaid to him, Come here and make another complaint.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 1+5\\nAnd as the victim left the Court Room, the Judge was\\nwriting a new complaint against him, for insanity.\\nThe victim utilized his liberty respite by going over\\ninto the city, and there met Mr. Hollinsworth, one of\\nthe heaviest stockholders of Stephens Bank, and he\\nsaid to him, I have just knocked out the Bank s judge,\\ndistrict attorney, lawyers, and all in that insanity con-\\nspiracy against me. Don t you think I am quite a legal\\nknocker out for an insane man? Mr. Hollinsworth\\nwas like the boy we once heard about, he had nothing\\nto say. Of course these tactics were for the purpose of\\nstigmatizing the conspiracy and its judge.\\nHe had not gone far in advertising the gang in this\\nway before the sheriff came up to him and said, Well,\\nI am after you again. All right, he said, here I\\nam, and I will knock you all out again have you a\\nwarrant? If not, I shall not go this time. Yes;\\nyou told me that, so I have a warrant; here it is,\\nshowing it. And the victim was again led to the\\nslaughter pen. He was allowed to remain sane only\\nfor a little while. Kind of presto change business, now\\nsane, now insane.\\nAfter arriving at the jail, he examined the new com-\\nplaint against him and found it to be in the hand writ-\\ning of Judge Garoutte. It was fatally defective in not\\ncomplying with the law in such cases. He immediately\\nprepared a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, and\\nfound the Judge in the Clerk s office, to whom he\\npresented the petition, and asked that an order for a\\nWrit of Habeas Corpus be issued upon it.\\nThe Judge looked the petition over and said, What is\\nthe use of this? Suppose the papers are defective and\\nyou are again discharged, they will arrest you again.\\nThe victim told the judge that they might arrest him", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nuntil they grew as black in the face as they were at\\nheart, but that they would never get him into an\\nasylum. The judge made the requested order for the\\nreason, if he had refused to do so, he would have been\\nsubject to an action for $5,000 damages under the\\nstatute of California.\\nThe Writ of Habeas Corpus having been granted, the\\nnext thing was to get a hearing, so he went again to the\\njudge and requested him to grant a hearing on it that\\nafternoon but he refused to grant a hearing that after-\\nnoon, because he said that he had another matter to\\nhear, and besides he did not suppose that it made any\\ndifference when it was heard. But upon pressure he\\nset the hearing down for the day after tomorrow at two\\no clock p. m. Now the reason that the judge set the\\nhearing for the day after tomorrow in the afternoon,\\nwas because he calculated to have the victim in the\\nasylum before that time and then of course there could\\nbe no such hearing. Therefore note the moral perjury\\nof this villainous judge who now sits in the people s\\ncourt in legal judgment over their lives, their property\\nand honor in California.\\nIt was now two o clock p. m. of the same day,\\nOctober 9th. And the victim was sitting at a window\\nin the sheriff s office from which, he could see the\\napproach of persons coming from the city to the court\\nhouse, and he observed many of the witnesses against\\nhim who had been in attendance of the morning session\\nof the court coming to and entering the court house.\\nAt the first sight of these witnesses he divined the situ-\\nation to be; that the conspiracy had ordered the court\\nto proceed with the insanity hearing that afternoon, and\\nmake an order that the victim should be confined in the\\nasylum. And then it was further plain what the judge", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 147\\nreferred to, when he refused to hear the Habeas Corpus,\\nand said he had another matter that afternoon.\\nThe victim now went into the court room and there\\nsaw many of the witnesses, who were in the conspiracy\\nshying and trembling, notably the cur was shaking like\\na sliver on a rail in a high wind, and many others,\\nwhose legs quivered until it could be said, they were\\ntired and about to resign nature s position. And if one\\ncould hear such poor, disgraced legs speak, they would\\nundoubtedly hear them say\\nWe are willing to prop and support any mortal,\\nproviding he possesses even a scintilla of the elements of\\nmanhood, but when we are compelled to walk and carry\\naround such counterfeits as these, who have betrayed\\nevery trust confided to them, and committed every\\nmoral and legal crime in the whole category, we rebel\\nand are willing to be committed to the dust rather\\nthan to further pursue our nauseating calling.\\nDr. Keating, an eminent physician of Woodland, was\\nsolicited by the conspiracy to act as a commissioner of\\nlunacy upon this hearing, but he looked upon the mat-\\nter as a job and farce, and refused to have anything to\\ndo with it. Some of the other doctors who were there\\nas witnesses at the morning session of court, now refused\\nto take any further part in the play, and as reasons\\nstated that when it came to such a pass, an open out-\\nrage, that an alleged crazy man could legally throw\\ndown the district attorney, court and all as was done\\nthat morning, they didn t want any more stock in such\\na company.\\nThe lone victim now sat there musing his fate, but\\nrather amusing himself over their fate, for he knew he\\nwas soon to be adjudged insane by the conspiracy s\\njudge; but that he would soon have a jury trial and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nreverse the doctors, court and all, and then what a\\nplight they would be in with the moral effect of such a\\nverdict against them. In a sense it would be an im-\\npeachment of the doctors and judge, besides it would\\nbe self-evident proof that all he had said against them\\nwas true.\\nNow he conceived the idea of burlesquing this coming\\ninsanity examination and making it as farcial and out-\\nrageous as possible; by cross-questioning and tangling\\nup the willing witnesses, who were so anxious to swear\\naway his liberty for the simple promise of favor from\\nthe conspiracy, which they never could obtain. And\\nthereby destroy them by their own mouths, with which\\nthey were attempting to destroy him. Now about this\\ntime in came the judge with settled and fixed determi-\\nnation to obey the orders of the conspiracy, and thus\\ncommit a permeditated injury, through the forms of the\\nlaw, upon an innocent man who never did him any\\nharm.\\nWithout a formal opening the Court said, Dr. Clark\\nand Dr. McFarland, they (meaning the conspiracy)\\nhave selected you to act as commissioners, come forward\\nand be sworn. With commendable obedience to\\norders and with great alacrity, they responded and were\\nsworn in to do worse and more contemptible work than\\nbloody assassins.\\nAt this point in the tragedy, the victim arose and\\nstated that he protested against the Court s proceeding\\nwith his examination, for the reason the complaint filed\\nagainst him was fatally defective, and did not comply\\nwith the law in such cases, and the Court admitted such\\nto be the fact by granting a Habeas Corpus upon such\\ngrounds; and therefore the court could not legally\\nproceed with his examination until the Habeas Corpus", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 149\\nhearing was over, and the court had formerly decided\\nthe complaint to be good. The victim further said,\\nYou cannot legally hold me now on a defective com-\\nplaint any more than you could this morning, the law\\nor your legal power is no greater now than it was then.\\nThe Court made no reply but arbitrarily called J. T.\\nGibson, the drug clerk, to the stand and instructed him\\nto tell what he knew or had heard about the defendant s\\nbeing crazy.\\nWitness Well, I can t tell.\\nCourt Don t you know anything about it?\\nWitness Yes.\\nCourt What is it?\\nWitness Well, he s crazy.\\nCourt How do you know?\\nWitness I don t know, only he s crazy.\\nCourt Can t you tell something you have seen him\\ndo, or heard him say, that will be evidence he is crazy.\\nWitness I don t know what to say.\\nCourt Don t you know something that would make\\nyou think he is crazy? Something you have seen him\\ndo or heard him say?\\nWitness I never saw or heard him say anything.\\nCourt Haven t you heard someone say he s crazy?\\nWitness Yes; I have.\\nCourt Well, who have you heard say he was crazy?\\nWitness Why, Ball and Craige, and Fiske and\\nStephens, you, the district attorney, and others.\\nCourt Tell what he said when he asked you your\\nname, and all about it.\\nWitness Well, I and Sweeney and Jim were setting\\non a box in front of the drug store, and he came along\\nand after talking to Sweeney, he asked me my full\\nname; and I didn t want to answer him, and he said", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nto Sweeney, See how red my face got, and not to\\nforget it, and I got up and went in the drug store.\\nCourt Is that all that was said?\\nWitness Yes, that is all.\\nCourt Do you know anything else he has done or\\nsaid to any person?\\nWitness No; I don t know any more.\\nCourt That will do stand aside.\\nThe victim now arose and addressed the Court as\\nfollows: May it please Your Honor, I move the testi-\\nmony of the witness, Gibson, be stricken out, because\\nit is irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent. It is\\nirrelevant because it in no way conceivable relates to the\\nissue being examined. It is immaterial because it does\\nnot prove nor tend to prove the issue or any part of it.\\nAnd if it proves or tends to prove anything, it is the\\nwitness s incapacity, but willingness to testify to some-\\nthing if he knew how Court interrupting: The\\nmotion is overruled Mr. Gibson, stand aside.\\nDefendant With the Court s permission I desire to\\nask the witness a few questions before he leaves the\\nstand.\\nCourt You must be very brief about it; I do not pro-\\npose to take up much time in this small matter.\\nDefendant Mr. Gibson, did we ever speak together\\nor to each other except as you have mentioned here in\\nCourt?\\nWitness That was the only time\\nDefendant Did you about nine o clock on the morn-\\ning of July 14th last past leave the drug store in which\\nyou work and go to the dental office of Dr. Dick on an\\nerrand in which I was concerned?\\nCourt You need not answer that question.\\nDefendant The question is only preliminary and", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 151\\nintended to serve as a basis for certain other questions\\nto follow which will elicit very important discoveries,\\nand show some very material facts bearing on the issue,\\nand if the answers are not apparently material, I will\\nask the Court to strike them all out. So I think the\\nCourt ought to allow the witness to answer the question\\nunder these conditions.\\nCourt The Court thinks you have gone about far\\nenough with this witness, but you may ask another\\nquestion or two, and we will see about it then.\\nDefendant Mr. Gibson, upon the morning mentioned\\ndid you take from the drug store where you are\\nemployed a dose of poison Here the court inter-\\nrupted the question by saying, You can t ask the\\nwitness anything about poison that is another matter,\\na criminal action which is not being tried here.\\nDefendant I propose to show by this witness that on\\nthe morning mentioned he, at the instance of the con-\\nspiracy, took a dose of poison, prepared at the drug\\nstore where he works by Dr. Strong, to the dental office\\nof Dr. Dick adjoining the flat where I live, and there\\ngave such poison to Dr. Dick to be secretly administered\\nto me with murderous intent and it was so done\\nThe court here again interrupted and peremptorily\\nordered the witness to leave the stand.\\nOf course the victim could not control the Court or\\nkeep the witness on the stand, but he was very well\\nsatisfied with the results from the witness and the Court.\\nHe had them where they looked smaller to him than a\\nfly speck on the Rocky Mountains. While as an Amer-\\nican citizen living under the best government the world\\never knew, and they as a part of such government, he\\nfelt sorry for their criminal hearts.\\nAfter the exposure made by the little drug clerk, the", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nCourt enquired of its Clerk if the subpoena in the mat-\\nter under examination had been returned, and was\\ninformed that there had been no subpoena issued, that\\nthe witnesses were all there without having been sub-\\npoenaed.\\nAt this point, Mr. Torrence, proprietor of the Capitol\\nHotel at Woodland, asken to be sworn that he might\\nretire, so the Court called him to the stand and instructed\\nhim to state all he knew about Sullivan s being crazy,\\nand emphasized the fact that he must tell all that he\\nhad ever seen him do or heard him say. So the wit-\\nness commenced his wonderful and startling evidence\\nby saying:\\nAfter the victim had returned from his duties as\\nEnrolling Clerk of the Senate he took his meals at the\\nHotel and nothing unusual was noticed about him\\nuntil a day or two before he was arrested and at that\\ntime he commenced to talk about the conspiracy,\\nnaming them, and to tell how they had attempted to\\nmurder him both with poison and with bullets. And\\nhis story looked so improbable that he could not believe\\nit, neither did he believe that the victim was crazy;\\nthat the victim distinctly stated that he was not afraid\\nof these fellows now, but was last summer before he\\nhad firearms.\\nAnd during Mr. Torrence s narration of crazy facts,\\nhe stated that after the victim had informed him about\\nthis conspiracy, he went out of the hotel while the north\\nwinds were blowing very hard and the door was shut\\nwith a bang as though some one had fired off a pistol.\\nAt this point the court interrupted and said to Mr.\\nTorrence: So you think he is crazy, do you?\\nWhy, certainly he is.\\nCourt That will do stand aside.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 153\\nDefendant May it please the Court I desire to ask\\nthe witness a few questions.\\nCourt All right; you may, but they must be very\\nshort.\\nDefendant Mr. ^Torrence, one of the reasons you\\nthink I am crazy is because the north wind was blow-\\ning when I went out of your hotel and the door\\nslammed?\\nWitness Yes but you were also singing as you went\\nout.\\nDefendant Don t you know, that one of these north\\nwinds we have usually blows for about three days, and\\nit has a peculiar effect on all animal creation, both\\nhuman and brute?\\nCourt You need not answer that question it will\\nnot prove either sanity or insanity.\\nDefendant Your Honor, it is a fact well known by\\nnatural philosophers, scientific and learned men of this\\ncoast, as well as to many others, that after one of these\\nnorth winds have been blowing for some time, they\\nproduce a peculiar effect on all animal creation; and\\nthen the horses will neigh, the bulls will bellow, the\\ncows will low, the calves will bawl, and all animal\\ncreation is affected to a greater or less extent\\nAnd I now propose to prove by this witness, that he\\nunderstands all about these winds and its effect, and\\nthat it affected him at such time the same as it did the\\ncalves, and that he has not got over it yet. Besides it\\nmay appear that this door slammed not because I was\\ncrazy, but because the wind blew the witness s brains\\nout.\\nCourt Never mind the crazy man, Mr. Torrence,\\nstand aside.\\nThe Court next brought forward this limping, lying", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "154 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nlawyer Baker, to whom we have already referred. And\\nas soon as he took the stand, the victim turned his back\\nto him, so as to show all the contempt that he could,\\nbecause he knew him to be a Masonic fraud and lying\\nperjurer. The witness was directed by the Court to\\nproceed in his own way and tell anything he could that\\ncaused him to think that the defendant was crazy. The\\nwitness proceeded but seemed to be spellbound and half\\nlockjawed. He could scarcely say anything other than\\nhe thought the defendant was crazy, and so the witness\\nwas soon dimisssed by the court and entirely ignored by\\nthe defendant.\\nThe next witness called to elucidate the crazy actions\\nof the defendant was the conspirator, Dr. Strong, who\\nbeing instructed how to testify in about the same\\nmanner that the preceding witnesses had been told,\\nproceeded to show the victim was as crazy as a bed bug\\nand ought to be put into an asylum at once. And the\\ngreat reason assigned for the victim s being crazy was\\nbecause he had imagined he was poisoned on the pre-\\nceeding 14th day of July. Now after this witness had\\nemptied his bag of perjury on the judge s altar of\\ninfamy, he was accordingly directed to leave the stand.\\nBut at this stage of the tragedy, the victim claimed the\\nright to ask the modern Ananias some questions and\\nproceeded as follows\\nDefendant Doctor, do you recollect being in Ball s\\nlaw office about a year ago extolling his qualities and\\nthere in my presence said, that you would take the\\nchances and do anything that he wanted you to do?\\nCourt You need not answer that.\\nDefendant At the time I referred to, do you recollect\\nthat you said you would poison a man for twenty five\\ndollars if you had Ball to back you?", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 155\\nCourt Don t answer that question.\\nDefendant Just one more Did you on the 14th of\\nlast July go into Zimmerman s drug store, where Tommy\\nGibson works, and there prepare a dose of poison and\\ngive it to him to be taken to the dental office of Dr.\\nDick, with the intention of having the same administered\\nto me?\\nCourt You shall not ask the witness any more\\nquestions. Doctor, leave the stand.\\nA snake-eyed fraud and recent arrival from Oregon,\\nwho wanted an opportunity to sycophant the favor of\\nthe mighty conspiracy, now took the stand to elucidate\\nwhat he knew about the crazy actions of the defendant\\nand he testified That on the 14th of last July he met\\nthe defendant, who said: he had just been poisoned,\\nand got it out of the dipper, as his pipe and the dipper\\nwere the only things that had touched his mouth. The\\ndefendant looked pale and excited and said, that after\\nhe had taken the poison, sparks flew out of his eyes\\nlike the rays from an electric light and that he com-\\nmenced to burn and have pains in his breast and\\nstomach. That defendant could not have taken poison\\nor he would have gone into convulsions, and were it not\\nfor these delusions, or others equally as strong, he\\nwould not say the defendant was insane; but as it was\\nthere as no doubt of his being crazy.\\nThe little doctor had now retailed his coaching, and\\nfull stock of medical learning, and the Court as usual\\nordered him from the stand. But the defendant insisted\\nso persistentlv on his right to cross examine his accuser,\\nthat the judge under force of a few by-standers who had\\nrecently come into court and were listening to the farce,\\ngave way and allowed the defendant to proceed.\\nDefendant \u00e2\u0080\u0094Doctor, if I had really been poisoned as", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nI claimed, would I not have looked pale as you said I\\ndid?\\nWitness Oh, yes; and more, you would have been\\nin convulsions.\\nDefendant But could not a person have been given\\nsuch a small quantity of poison that convulsions would\\nnot be produced, and that the same appearance as I\\npresented would be produced?\\nWitness Well, its possible that might be.\\nDefendant You are sure I was crazy?\\nWitness Yes; sure.\\nDefendant And you are sure I am crazy now?\\nWitness How could a man have imagined he had\\nbeen poisoned and be sane?\\nDefendant Well, then, if I imagined something, that\\nwas true, which you say was false, I would be crazy for-\\never, unless I gave up my belief and said my imagi-\\nnations were untrue?\\nWitness Well, I guess you are crazy sure enough.\\nDefendant Well, if I am, how is it that while in that\\ncrazy condition, I was elected to the most critical posi-\\ntion in the State Legislature, and no person there ever\\neven thought of my being crazy, and no other person\\never thought of such a thing except those who desired\\nto destroy me to save themselves?\\nCourt Doctor, don t answer, but at once leave the\\nstand.\\nThere were two or three other witnesses sworn, but\\ntheir evidence was of less importance either way than\\nany given. So the court declared the case closed, and\\nwould not allow the defendant to introduce any evidence\\nin his behalf. But of course the victim did not care\\nfor that because it made no difference, his doom was", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 157\\nsealed regardless of evidence, right or wrong, so far as\\nthis proceeding was concerned.\\nThis doctor, A. J. Clark, one of the lunacy com-\\nmissioners, was a graduate disgracing Harvard College.\\nHe was about the size of a half grown ape, with a tea-\\ncup sized head shaped like a gourd. About all that\\nneed be said of the other tool is he was a friend of Dr.\\nStrong, and a Missouri bull- whacker. They without\\nthe least consultation commenced to rill out the printed\\nblank prepared for such purpose, and which under the\\nlaw and their oaths should contain a detailed statement\\nof the facts and conclusions supported by the evidence\\ngiven on the examination. So as the evidence is sub-\\nstantially all given here, we will give the principal con-\\nclusions of the commissioners in narrative form, so there\\nmay be seen how much evidence there was, or rather\\nwas not, to support their conclusions.\\nThe defendant has delirous imaginings that persons\\nare plotting to kill him, and has had an indefinite,\\nhomocidal intent ever since July 14, 1886. He has\\nno rational intervals and carries a pistol with intent to\\nuse it. He is of intemperate habits and is dangerously\\ninsane and has been ever since July 14, 1886. Perhaps\\nthe reader will pardon us for stating there was not a\\nparticle of evidence upon which any of the findings of\\nthe commissioners could be based, so we will have to\\nconclude they were based upon their own baseness.\\nWhile the doctors were filling out this certificate, the\\nvictim went to the judge and asked him when he would\\nrender his decision upon the examination. This was\\ndone as a kind of precautionary measure in this way\\nhe was not entitled to a jury trial until the judge con-\\nfirmed the findings of the commissioners and had been\\ndeclared insane. And while he was satisfied that the", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\njudge did not know anything about this provision of\\nlaw, yet he was afraid the judge might make out a\\ncommitment, and he would be hustled away to the asylum\\nwithout getting an opportunity to have a jury trial\\ndemanded for him. So he wanted to find out when the\\njudge would decide the matter, and was informed by\\nhim, he would take it under advisement and when he\\nhad decided, he would let him know, as he saw him\\nevery day at the court house.\\nSo two days after this time the Judge not having said\\nanything about his decision, the victim asked him\\nwhat he had done with the matter; Why, said the\\nJudge, I gave the sheriff your commitment right away\\nafter the doctors made out their certificate that you were\\ninsane, and the sheriff ought to have taken you to the\\nasylum yesterday morning. Yes, said the victim,\\nbut you agreed to let me know when you determined\\nthe matter. Well, said the judge, I do not pro-\\npose to tell an insane man what I am going to do.\\nThe victim said, See here, Judge Garroute, you ll\\nbe sorry for this before you die. You will find out\\nyet that you, and they, are the crazy persons instead of\\nmyself. I will yet make you the sickest dog that\\never ate a blade of grass when he wanted a vomit.\\nThe victim was now entitled to a jury trial, but in\\norder to obtain it, some friend must make a formal\\nmotion in open court demanding the same. So the\\nnext morning he saw ex- Judge Bush and called his\\nattention to the provisions of law that gave him the\\nright to a jury trial, and asked the ex-judge to apply to\\nthe court for it. The judge kindly consented to do so,\\nand when the court convened that next morning he\\nmade the proper motion, and called the attention of\\nthe Court to the law that allowed the same.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 159\\nThe Court and a few sympathizers, who were present,\\nwere figuratively paralyzed; they began to rea ize the\\nplot of ruin was not yet worked out, and so the Court\\nrecovering itself stated, it would take the matter under\\nadvisement and at the expiration of two days its decision\\ngranting a jury trial was announced, but the trial was\\nset for November 11th, nearly a month in the future.\\nIt was now supposed that the victim would not be\\ntroubled anymore by the combine until his jury trial,\\nbut not so. The conspiracy were determined by some\\nhook or crook to get him incarcerated so that they\\nmight be able to say, if he exposed them, that he was\\ncrazy and they had sent him to an asylum but that he\\nhad gotten better and in some way was released. So to\\ncarry out their desire, they had Judge Garoutte to\\nfurther debauch himself by ordering the sheriff to take\\nthe victim to the asylum, and there have him confined\\nuntil his jury trial came off. But the judge was too\\ncowardly to put such an illegal order in writing and\\nonly gave it verbally to the sheriff, who was only too\\nglad to act on it and told the victim to get ready to go\\nto the asylum the next morning.\\nAt this point Attorney John W. Goin came into the\\nsheriff s office 4 and the matter was submitted to him\\nfor an opinion. He at once declared that the order\\ngranting a jury trial stayed and superseded all previous\\nproceedings in the matter, and the victim could now\\nonly be confined in an asylum upon the verdict of the\\njury. That he could not be legally placed there, even\\ntemporarily, while waiting trial. As Mr. Goin was one\\nof Harlan s attorneys and a good lawyer, his opinion\\nstaggered the sheriff in his rampant anxiety and he\\nsaid, Well, I ll see the judge again.\\nNow for the purpose of fortifying himself against a", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "160 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nprobable attack of the enemy from this last threatened\\nposition, the victim procured from the Clerk s office a\\ncertified copy of the order granting him a jury trial and\\nthe necessary blanks to be used in a Habeas Corpus case.\\nAnd then went over to Judge Bush s office and informed\\nhim of the conspiracy s new plan of operation.\\nJudge Bush said, Let them take you, and I will go\\ndown with you and get out a Writ of Habeas Corpus\\nbefore Judge Wallace, and we will come back on the\\nsame train with them but I do not think they will be\\nfools enough to do this, however I will go and see the\\nsheriff and I believe he will listen to me. So Judge\\nBush saw the sheriff, and after sufficient time had\\nelapsed for him to have an interview with the combine,\\nthe victim was informed the matter of taking him to an\\nasylum had been indefinitely postponed.\\nThe gods help those who help themselves, was\\nnow his guiding star to a great extent, and he set to\\nwork telling the people whom he got a chance to talk to,\\nthe real inside facts of his insanity persecution, and of\\ncourse the more persons who heard these facts the more\\ngood would be done himself when the exposure and\\nreaction came on the combine. And working on this\\nsame general line he conceived the idea that possibly\\nhe could use the millefluous Bird s paper, the Wood-\\nland Mail, published every morning. So there was a\\nyoung man, Wood DeLong, who was night editor of this\\npaper, and he being entirely innocent of all guilty know-\\nledge, the victim invited him over to the sheriffs office\\none evening, and there it was a very easy matter to get\\nhim to print in this paper that night the following\\narticle which the victim had already prepared\\nEditor of the Mail, Allow me to say, That I am\\nperfectly, happy and have no more fear of going to an", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 161\\nasylum, as an inmate, than I would if I were the most\\nsane and intelligent man in Yolo County, or the\\nwealthiest. My persecutors have got just what they\\ndon t want to wit they have forced me into court and\\nto defend myself, and by doing so, have made the\\nState a party against me, which gives me the right of\\ntrial by jury, and the process of the court to procure my\\nwitnesses, which are legion. And by my witnesses, I\\nshall prove, not only my sanity, but one of the deepest\\nlaid plots to secretly take a human being s life ever\\nplanned in a civilized community and that the same\\nwas frustrated by me alone. That now I have no fears\\nfor the reason so many persons know of the attempted\\nmurder; besides I have given evidence to so many\\nshowing this insanity dodge attempted to be played\\nagainst me, was in order to shut my mouth against\\nthe plots to murder and ruin me.\\nDated October 20, 1886.\\nP. M. Sullivan.\\nThe above statement appearing in the Woodland\\nMail next morning was a bitter dose for the combine,\\nfor it would be read by the people of Woodland and\\nYolo County generally; and of course would cause them\\nto talk and investigate the cause of all this insanity\\nnoise, and that was just what the criminals did not\\nwant, secrecy was their plan of operation. So now as it\\nwas becoming public what could they do? They dare\\nnot answer back in print, for the more it was stirred the\\nworse it would make it for them. So they had to take\\ntheir medicine in silence the same as the victim had\\nbeen doing for the last five months. And by reason of\\nthis article the people had a very good and clear idea of\\nthe true inwardness of this whole matter before his jury\\ntrial came off.\\nIt was now October 28, 1886., and the time for his\\ntrial was fast approaching and he must be ready with", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "162 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nhis witnesses, so to that end he prepared the necessary\\npapers for an order for his witnesses that resided in\\nanother County, and presented the same to the judge\\nwho read it over and inquired what he wanted to prove\\nby the witnesses named in the papers.\\nHe told the judge he wanted to prove and could\\nprove these conspirators had tried to murder him, and\\nthat would show why they were now trying to send him\\nto an asylum.\\nThe judge said, You shall not prove any such thing,\\nand I shall not make any order for witnesses nor let\\nyou have any in this case.\\nThe victim replied, the State was a party against him\\nand he had a legal right to witnesses and to such order,\\nand then went away to the sheriff s office.\\nThe judge followed him in there and verbally ordered\\nthe sheriff to either lock him up or take him to the\\nasylum. The victim replied, that neither one should\\nbe done. WhereupQn, the judge said, God damn you,\\nif you were not insane, I would smash you.\\nThe victim was nqw being internally consumed with\\nanger, and in the presence of the two deputies said\\nSee here, Mr. Judge, we will play that I am not insane\\nfor a little while, we ll bar that, and I will grind your\\ncorrupt carcass finer than powder. You vile wretch\\nand infamous tool. I am a better man and a better\\nlawyer than you are or ever will be. The judge was\\nnot quite ready for this truth, or for battle and so he\\nslunk away.\\nThe boldness of the victim in asking the judge for an\\norder to subpoena .witnesses to prove his criminal\\nattempts to murder, along with the rest of the con-\\nspirators, is what made the judge so very angry. He\\nsaw that they had a harder game to play than was", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 163\\nanticipated, and so he tried to bluff the victim off, and\\ngot called, that s about the size of that deal.\\nFrom this time until the day before his trial, there\\nwas nothing discovered from his limited facilities that\\nwas worthy of note, but on the afternoon before the trial\\nmany of the jurymen from the country came into and\\nwere around the court house. The victim noticed the\\nagents of the conspiracy around among them, engaged\\nin apparent confidential conversation, and he was fearful\\nthat they were trying to pack the jury against him.\\nAlong toward night Ball came over to the court house\\nand was closeted with the judge for along time. So\\nupon all in all the victim concluded not to ask many\\nquestions on the trial about attempted murder, and thus\\nmake it so serious a matter for the combine, for perhaps\\nif it got too hot for them, they might have some friend\\non the jury that would protect them; or they might\\nbuy some of the jurymen and it might be all the worse\\nfor the victim that is, they might not all agree on his\\nsanity under such circumstances.\\nAnd so he concluded to show up only the woman\\nmotive for the insanity persecution, and the general and\\nspecific reputations of the combine being so well known\\nto be bad in this regard, all he would have to do would\\nbe to mention a few names and it would be all over\\nwith them, while if he charged them with attempted\\nmurder it might result as above intimated.\\nIt was now November 18, 1886, 10 a. m., and the\\nmatter of the victim s alleged insanity was called before\\nthe Superior Court of Yolo County, California, Judge\\nGaroutte presiding. Frank Sprague, district attorney,\\nappeared for people, and the accused appeared in person\\nalso by E. R. Bush, attorney. Twelve men were called\\nand took their places in the jury box to be examined", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "164 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\ntouching their qualifications to act as jurors. Judge\\nBush then proceeded and examined four of them.\\nThe victim then proceeded to examine the fifth pro-\\nposed juryman and upon the first question being asked\\nby him of the juror, the judge interposed and said,\\nMr. Sullivan, the court does not want to hear you ask\\nthese jurors any questions. I have told you that you\\nmust appear by attorney.\\nThe victim replied, Yes; but that was off the bench\\nand unofficial and of course cannot be taken as the law of\\nthe case as yet. And as the whole issue for the jury to\\ndecide is whether I am sane or insane, it seems to me\\nthat the very best and most direct and conclusive\\nevidence that could be furnished them, would be for\\nthem to see and hear me conduct my own defense.\\nHere Judge Bush interposed and said: There could\\nbe no doubt of the right of the accused to appear in his\\nown behalf; the right of self-defense is a conceded right\\nboth in and out of court, and to adopt a contrary rule\\nwould be in effect saying, that if a man was so poor or\\nso friendless that he could not get counsel to defend\\nhim, when involuntarily appearing in court, he must\\nsit mute and go undefended that such rule would be\\nin plain contravention of the rules of law and practice\\nin all the courts of the State, and contrary to the history\\nof all jurisprudence from the days of Justinian down to\\nthe present time.\\nAnd The court interrupted by saying, You\\nare here able and willing to defend the accused and\\nthere is no necessity for two attorneys in this small\\nmatter, and I see no reason to change my mind in this\\nregard.\\nJudge Bush continued and said, by analogy the pro-\\nvisions of the State constitution were applicable here.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 165\\nand he invoked the same in behalf of the defendant.\\nThe constitution gives the most sneaking thief or\\nunmitigated murderer the right to defend himself in\\nperson, by attorney, or by both. That a ruling that\\nwould place a man, who was not even accused of com-\\nmitting any crime, on a footing in court below an alleged\\nthief or murderer, was palpably wrong in justice,\\nnatural right, legal and constitutional right. And to find\\na verdict here without giving the defendant the right to\\ndefend himself in person, would in effect be taking his\\nliberty without due process of law both under the con-\\nstitution of the State and of the United States. And he\\ncould not understand why the right of the defendant to\\nact for himself should be denied him, especially when\\nhe knew all the facts and circumstances of his defense\\nand the whole matter, and his attorney did not.\\nThe defendant saw an opening and stated The statute\\nof the State presumed him to be of sound mind until\\nthe verdict of the jury about to be empanelled found to\\nthe contrary. And up to such time he had as much\\nright to practice in this court as the most famed\\nattorney. And to illustrate, suppose one of the most\\nnoted lawyers in the country was coming to the court\\nhouse to defend some important case, and on his way\\nhere should be arrested upon a complaint made, by\\nyoung Gibson, the drug clerk, would this court hold in\\nsuch a case that the lawyer s right to practice was taken\\nfrom him by the false complaint of Gibson, until his\\nsanity was established by a jury of twelve men? Could\\nsuch a trick deprive a man of the legal, natural and\\ndivine right to self-defense in court?\\nCourt There is no use in arguing this proposition to\\nthe court no insane nor alleged insane man can defend\\nhimself in my court Mr. Bush, if you are going to", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "166 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nappear for the defendant proceed and empanel the jury.\\nThe victim from the beginning knew that the judge\\nwould not let him defend himself, because he knew too\\nmuch about the criminal combine, and would ask too\\nmany incriminating and ugly questions before the jury\\nand Ball anticipating such a contingency had fixed that\\nthe night before with the judge, so the defendant should\\nnot defend himself. But he had Judge Bush to make\\nhis legal argument and supplemented it by his own\\nremarks, so as to make the court appear as ridiculous\\nand infamous as possible to the jury that they might\\nthe more easily see the jnwardness of the outrage also\\nso that he would have as full a record against them for\\nfuture use as possible.\\nAt this point Judge Bush made a formal motion for\\nthe accused to be allowed to defend himself in person as\\nwell as by attorney, and after the same was overruled,\\nexcepted to, and placed on record, the jury was speedily\\nempanelled and the farce proceeded. The evidence of\\nthe former perversion of justice on October 9th was all\\nrehashed, and from study and preparation it was made\\nto present a much more respectable appearance than it\\ndid on its debut. Each actor showed hard study and\\nclose application to the several parts they were to play,\\nso that they got along without being laughed at except,\\nthe cur whose lies were so palpably false that the jury\\nlaughed at him from the jury box.\\nThe only additional witnesses the conspiracy had in\\ncourt were Dr. Clark, Dr. McFarlane, and the district\\nattorney. Dr. Clark testified that he acted as com-\\nmissioner on October 9, and his opinion was then and\\nwas now that the defendant was insane, and his opinion\\nwas based on the evidence then given and his observa-\\ntion, nothing else. Dr. McFarlane also acted as com-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 167\\nmissioner and considered that the defendant was then\\nand now afflicted with acute mania.\\nThe district attorney had sworn to a complaint on the\\n6th day of July, 1886, at the request of Ball and Craige,\\ncharging the defendant with insanity. He did not\\nhave the defendant arrested then, because Ball and\\nCraige did not want him to do so then. The defendant\\nhad told him about the conspiracy trying to murder\\nhim last summer. And here the evidence on the part\\nof the conspiracy (or people) closed.\\nThere not being a particle of evidence from which the\\njury could find a verdict of insanity, Judge Bush\\nwanted to submit the same without offering any proof\\nor making any argument to the jury. But inasmuch\\nas some of them had come sixteen miles to see the\\npresentation of this elaborate farce, the defendant\\nthought it would not be fair to drop the curtain in the\\nmiddle of the play. Besides he desired to go upon the\\nstand as a witness and give some of the secret reasons\\nfor his wanton persecution, and this mockery of justice.\\nThe sheriff unlawfully refused to subpoena the witnesses\\nfor the defendant, who lived at Woodland, so he got\\nwhomever he could around the court house at the time\\nof the trial and the substance of their testimony is given\\nas follows:\\nReese Clark was an attorney, who had business\\nrelations as an attorney with the accused which were not\\nfriendly, and if the victim was crazy there was more\\nmethod in his madness than any insane man he ever\\nheard or read about, and he did not think he was crazy,\\nbut very much the reverse.\\nSenator John Lambert was an attorney; he knew the\\naccused claimed he was poisoned last July from a\\ndipper, but it must have been a very small dose or he", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "168 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nwould have been as stiff as a Cardiff Giant. The\\naccused was certainly a competent lawyer, and if he was\\ncrazy then he would say all the Woodland lawyers were\\nlikewise.\\nGeorge P. Hurst was an attorney; he knew the\\naccused well, and there was nothing to lead him to even\\nsuspect he was not sound and well balanced. He\\nwas always gentlemanly and courteous to those who\\ntreated him that way, and zealous in his duty to his\\nclients.\\nHon. H. M. LaRue was a resident of Sacramento City;\\nhe was speaker of the Assembly of California in 1883-\\n84; and he knew the accused for several years, and\\nbelieved him to be the happy possessor of a sound mind\\nand good judgment, and that was more than he could\\nsay of several who were trying to ruin him. And thus,\\nthe evidence ran for several more witnesses that he\\npicked up at the court house at the time.\\nAfter these witnesses were sworn, the victim, at the\\ninstance of the jury, took the witness stand, and before\\nhe was through with his two hours testimony, the\\nconspiring gang had nearly all left the court room,\\nhaving seen the last ray of hope of sending him to an\\nasylum blasted, by his withering exposure of their sins\\nand his persecution.\\nHe said very little about the many attempts to murder\\nhim, because he was fearful, as stated, that if he made\\nit too plain, that so many great men were in a conspiracy\\nto murder him, notwithstanding the jury knew he was\\nall right, yet some one or more of them might think it\\nwould be better to send him to an asylum, than that so\\nmany persons should suffer under the accusation of such\\ngreat crimes; and there must be a unanimous verdict of\\nthe jury one way or the other.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 169\\nAnd so it was, Ball Craige s names being the\\nsynonyms of infamy and licentiousness, the die was\\nsoon cast in the minds of the jury. There was no\\nformal argument made to the jury the district attorney\\nhaving slunk out of the court room and abandoned the\\ncase, the jury as soon as they could write their verdict\\nfound, The accused to be of sound mind and excellent\\njudgment. And Jezebel soon skipped the country\\nand has not been seen nor heard from since by the\\nvictim.\\nStephens Bank of Woodland together with all of its\\nsatelites and murder auxiliaries had now been out-\\ngeneralled and whipped in its own balwick and perjured\\ncourt. And while the people knew this, and the general\\ncause for this whipping, yet they dare not take sides\\nwith the victim for fear that this great money power\\nwould ruin them in their business affairs, but he made\\nthe effect on these criminals as damaging as possible by\\nnow, coming out boldly and telling everybody he talked\\nwith about the many plans and schemes they had\\npracticed to murder him.\\nDuring the time the victim was incarcerated as an\\ninsane man, he became acquainted with two young\\nmen, Stork, and Fahnley, whom this combine had\\nfalsely imprisoned on a charge of grand larceny. So he\\npromised these young men that as soon as he gained his\\ncivil rights by a jury trial, he would see they had\\ntheir freedom in a short time.\\nAnd in a few days he got their case on trial before a\\njury and soon snapped the perjured band that held\\nthem fast and set the persecuted free by the verdict of\\nthis jury. Aside from a generous feeling he had for\\nthese young men, and a desire to save them from\\nState s Prison, he desired to get another good chance to", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "170 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nthrash the perjured judge and district attorney in their\\nown court. And again show the people what frauds\\nthey were by trying to send a man to the asylum, who\\ncould and did beat them every time in their own court\\nbefore a jury. We would have you see the combine\\ndidn t have money enough to bribe every jury, besides\\nthey were too selfish to use it if they did have it.\\nFrom first to last there were known by the victim to\\nbe one hundred and twenty of both sex in this con-\\nspiracy and twenty- two of them were lawyers and the\\nvictim knew of evidence sufficient to disbar eleven of\\nthem for gross immorality and felony. So he made a\\nverified petition, presented and filed the same with the\\nSupreme Court of the State, asking that the petition be\\nheard and the licenses of these lawyers therein named\\nbe cancelled and revoked.\\nThe names of some of them were: Judge C. H.\\nGaroutte, now judge of the Supreme Court of California,\\nFrank Sprague, district attorney of Yolo County, John\\nW. Armstrong, Judge of the Superior Court of Sacra-\\nmento County, ex-Attorney General A. L. Hart of\\nSacramento County, F. E. Baker, Joe Craige, and J. C.\\nBall of Woodland, Yolo County. Of course the court\\nignored and suppressed this petition and the operation\\nof the law in this disbarment matter; and it is only\\nfair to assume it did so to keep secret as much as possi-\\nble the crimes of this great conspiracy, because it, and\\nits friends were rich, and might be useful to some of\\nthese judges of this court in the future as one good turn\\ndeserves another of like character. Judge Garoutte\\nbeing now a member of this court, we wonder if he\\nhadn t better take up this petition and disbar himself?\\nThe victim knowing the governor of the State, was\\nprovided with and then had a fund to use, as he chose,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 171\\nin ferreting out and punishing criminals made a verified\\nstatement showing some of the principal crimes of this\\nconspiracy, giving details and names of persons, and\\npresented the same to the governor and asked his help\\nand co-operation in punishing these criminals. But nay\\nGovernor Waterman would do nothing toward causing\\nthe punishment of these felons. It is evident the\\ngovernors, judges and other officers of the law in Cali-\\nfornia, will not punish the rich criminals for their crimes\\nagainst the poor and against the law, as shown in this\\nspecial case which is a fair sample to judge from.\\nSoon after the last tragedical days at Woodland, the\\nvictim located at San Francisco and worked in the law\\noffice of James H. Smith in the Phelan Building. And\\nfrom the papers we notice this same James H. Smith\\nwas a brigadier general in the Phillipine war. The\\nvictim there soon obtained money enough to return to\\nhis native state, and on May 24, 1888, he visited\\nWashington and obtained an audience with Don M.\\nDickinson, the postmaster-general of the United States,\\nwho graciously received him as a late arrival from the\\nGolden State of California.\\nThe victim proceeded to business at once and pre-\\nsented him with the direct verbal, written and docu-\\nmentary evidence showing the depredations of the\\nUnited States mail, during these tragedical days of 1886.\\nThe General seemed disappointed in not receiving some\\ngood political news instead of this troublesome matter.\\nSo when the murder facts were being pointed out,\\nshowing the millionaire conspiracy of John D. Stephens\\nand others, the General without word or ceremony\\nquickly arose from his mahogany chair and retired into\\na next room and in about five minutes he returned and", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "172 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nsaid, that Chief West would hear and dispose of the\\nmatter.\\nChief West proposed the victim should surrender the\\ndocumentary evidence he had showing the guilt of the\\nWoodland postmaster in deprecating the mails and that\\nthe same should be sent to Inspector Kirkwood at San\\nFrancisco for his report upon the same.\\nThe victim had presented the evidence to Mr. Kirk-\\nwood at San Francisco, who had refused to act, he\\nstanding in with that political faction, and the victim\\nwell knowing that this proposal of Chief West only\\nmeant a practical evasion of efficient action, and indirect\\nkilling and burying of these crimes against the United\\nStates law, declined to accede to such proposal, but\\ninsisted on a hearing there at Washington where the\\nhighest officials and the documentary evidence which\\nwould prove these mail depredations were.\\nBut it was all to no use the chief wanted the evi-\\ndence to send back to the Pacific Coast three thousand\\nmiles away from whence it would never return, and so\\nthe victim left these high officials, with disgust at their\\nmockery of duty and justice; and was almost convinced\\nthere is nothing in politics but corruption from con-\\nstable to president, both inclusive.\\nWhile marshalling and concluding upon the facts, it\\nshould be considered that the highest functions of our\\ngovernment are to protect the life, liberty, and propert} 7\\nof the citizens; which functions are operated through\\nits chosen officers. And that in this case, such officers of\\ncounty, state, and United States, instead of protecting\\nhuman life and liberty tried in every way devisable to,\\nboth imprison and murder such citizen, even to the\\nextent of depredating the mails in carrying out their\\nplots.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 173\\nIt is to be greatly regretted that so many high crimes\\nhave been proven against so many executive, legislative,\\nand judicial officers in the great state of California, and\\nin our greatest and best of all nations. Yet it must\\nnot be concluded that the mechanics, miners, fruit\\ngrowers, and tradesmen, who constitute a majority of\\nCalifronia s population, are to be included in the general\\nround up of criminals, for you will see these crooks are\\nfound among the lawyers, judges, bankers, and million-\\naires, and most of all, among the politicians.\\nNow after all these sins and crimes have been com-\\nmitted and quite generally known in California, there\\nwas not a man or a newspaper in the State that dare\\nraise his voice or print a word in denouncing the same\\nor vindicating the law. The disease and greed for\\nmoney being so thoroughly rooted, they would shut\\ntheir eyes and doors of reason against all such acts for\\nfear of being boycotted or otherwise injured by this\\nmotley conspiracy.\\nThe world s criminal jurisprudence nor the history of.\\nthe world will not show a case parallel to this, where\\nso many powerful men conspired to murder a poor,\\nobscure person to hide their own sins, and chased him\\nlike a mad dog or wild beast all over the State. Pro-\\nstituting men, women, and the laws of the state, and\\nnation in their hunt to kill him. The bloodiest robber\\nfor money that ever lived was a gentleman when alive\\nand a saint when dead as compared to the individuals\\nof this combine.\\nThis conspiracy had the brain power of scores of\\nexperienced criminals, many of them the leading\\ncriminal lawyers of the State. Besides they stood near\\nthe top round of the social and political ladder, with\\nmillions of dollars to give them stability and standing,", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "174 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nand if possible to lift them to higher prominence and\\ngreat pre-eminence. Thus situated they were the warp\\nand woof of the social and political society, the makers\\nof the rules and laws thereof. They were under every\\nprivate and public consideration to support and vindi-\\ncate the law and not to barbarously debauch every moral\\nprinciple and rule of law as here shown.\\nCompare the brain power in the conspiracy of the\\nChicago Anarchists the thugs there who murdered Dr.\\nCronin in secret; the deluded workmen of the Molly\\nMcGuire s, or the erratic actor Booth, who was the\\nbrain power of that conspiracy and then it can be truly\\nsaid, the criminal brain power of the conspirator, J. C.\\nBall of Woodland, was greater and of more worth as a\\ncriminal than all just mentioned put together. And no\\ncriminal combine can be now thought of that would\\nequal these Californians except the Tweed Ring, which\\nwas only a combine for money and not to take human\\nlife.\\nIt is possible for one who only reads these facts, to\\ncomprehend the torture of mind and personal danger\\nthe victim was in on July 18, 1886, when surrounded\\nby these six bloody assassins seeking his life like so\\nmany hungry tigers in a jungle, or to understand his\\nmingled feelings of horror, hope and despair on the\\nmorning of July 20th as he rode on the express wagon\\nand looking back at the window saw the siren deceitfully\\nsmiling in triumph as he passed down the street into\\nthe midst of an army of hired assassins lying in wait to\\nkill him. And he so perfectly boycotted that he could\\nnot obtain a pistol for his protection, and with an\\naffidavit and order with the conspiring sheriff to arrest\\nhim on the first signs he made toward exposing the\\nmurderers.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 175\\nWe say, is it possible for the people to imagine them-\\nselves in his stead during these agonizing and tragical\\ndays. If the people could see and understand the true\\nsituation, these criminals would find themselves engulfed\\nin such a whirlpool of retribution that they would cry\\nout for the rocks and mountains to fall upon them and\\nhide them from an outraged humanity.\\nThe conspiracy that assassinated the late William\\nGoebel of Kentucky was composed of politicians the\\nsame as the California combine. But there the unfor-\\ntunate deceased had money, friends and half the political\\npower of the State to back him, while here the victim s\\nfriends had all become secret assassins and boycotted\\nhim until he was without a friend, a dollar, a gun, or\\nany means to protect his life; and handicapped with\\ninsanity papers in the hands of a conspiring sheriff to\\narrest him if he made any attempt to expose the\\nattempts to murder him. Won t the exposure of these\\nvillains serve as a deterrent to like political highbinders.\\nThe foregoing statement of facts and argument will\\nnow be closed, trusting the reader will distinguish\\nbetween the facts and arguments, yet considering the\\nsame as a whole. And hoping some good may come\\nfrom the much evil here exposed, and that the vicious\\npersons who read these pages may take warning from\\nthe exposure of these great and life long criminals.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "176 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nEPITOME\\nN the beautiful City of Woodland in the far-famed golden\\n-)D state,\\nA siren conspired with a murderous clan another to ex-\\ntirpate\\nStrong and mighty were her band a hundred and more,\\nThe very greatest in the land with millions by the score.\\nTheir money gave them prominenee within the public mind,\\nAnd rendered any crime they d do more difficult to find;\\nBesides they owned the officers and controlled behind the scenes;\\nHaving previously elected them for carrying out foul schemes.\\nSelf-conscious of their might and the power they could use,\\nThere was nothing here below they did not dare abuse\\nThey had no care for honesty nor the power that made the\\nearth,\\nAnd all foul crime that ere was done was naught to them but\\nmirth.\\nSo at midnight s dark and woeful hours they conspired his life\\naway,\\nConceived their plots and laid their plans in secret him to slay\\nAnd to do such crime in safety and beyond suspicion s eye,\\nThey must hire bloody assassins, then plead an alibi.\\nSuch alibi would be a defense and silence forever more\\nAll accusations of their guilt presented at their door;\\nAnd the papers all would sycophant and prove them far away\\nFrom the atmosphere of such foul crime upon that fateful day.\\nThey were a selfish, lustful lot, the worst in all the land.\\nThey raised their murder money from one outside the band\\nAnd this they did by written lies both so shameless and so bold,\\nThat one, already a murderer, gave them Ten Thousand dol-\\nlars in gold.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. 177\\nJust previous to the assassin s attempts this dauntless siren\\nappears,\\nAnd places poison for him to drink then sheds her crocodile\\ntears\\nThere she awaits to see him go and drink the fatal cup,\\nTo see him writhe beneath its power at last to give life up.\\nBut no not so for God was there and stayed such awful crime,\\nHe snatched the victim from their clutch and saves him to this\\ntime;\\nAnd from these astounding circumstances this wicked band\\nshould know,\\nThat he who notes the sparrow s fall notes all foul crime below.\\nThe spirit that ruled their hardened hearts now ruled to ruin\\nsure,\\nTo spill the blood of one they d wronged and made so very\\npoor;\\nSo they now brought forth an assassin fierce hired with stolen\\npelf,\\nWho sought to murder the victim asleep, then say he d killed\\nhimself.\\nThe siren placed this assassin fierce into an adjoining room,\\nWho, when the victim was asleep should come and seal his\\ndoom\\nShe in the meantime going out some laces for to buy,\\nWould soon return and find him dead then prove her alibi.\\nBut sleep from his weary soul had fled, he could only lay and\\nrest,\\nAnd think of the moral traitors he d found in the far-famed\\ngolden West\\nNo w after a while, he heard a noise and quickly went to the\\ndoor,\\nAnd saw this assassin passing away enraged for want of gore.\\nThe next day on Woodland s streets, the assassins were on the\\nalert,\\nSome were white and some were black, but all were pro-\\nnounced expert", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178 A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.\\nThen they had him surrounded and the attack was deftly made,\\nBut the power that broke their poison plot saved him from\\nthe assassin s blade.\\nThus far their plots were fruitless, they could not take his life,\\nTh^y could not gain their bloody prize in such unholy strife\\nYet demon possessed and undismayed they were still deter-\\nmined to kill,\\nThe object of their wicked wrath his blood to surely spill.\\nOur victim was then Enrolling Clerk of the senate of the state,\\nHe must go and perform its duties and let other matters wait;\\nSo again they plotted to kill him while going on his way,\\nUpon the cars at Davisville, and on that woeful day.\\nThe train was leaving the depot, the assassins were at their\\nposts,\\nMoney bags with cash to pay them was looking like a ghost\\nThe team was ready to run them off as soon as the blow was\\nstruck,\\nBut watchfully he evaded their plots, which they foolishly\\ncalled his luck.\\nThe train now soon arrived at the capitol of the state,\\nThere being so many assassins, he was yet not sure of his fate;\\nAnd in the anguish of such suspense, he lived for many long\\ndays,\\nWhile thirty assassins attempted his life in scores of secret\\nways.\\nWith poison, knife and bullet, at all hours of both night and\\nday,\\nThey watched for a chance to kill him in some sure, but secret\\nway;\\nHis food was poisoned, his rooms were tried, he was hunted\\nlike a hare,\\nWith all conceivable criminal plots they tried him to ensnare.\\nThey conspired and bribed the senators, who tried to help\\nthem kill,", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "A CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY. i?9\\nTheir own elected Enrolling Clerk who such office then did fill\\nBut all their murder plans with sure defeat was fraught,\\nAnd will now serve to expose them as in good morals they\\nought.\\nBy death they could not destroy him so they tried the insanity\\nplan,\\nAnd brought forth their Court and doctors, who declared him\\na crazy man\\nBut the bulwark of our freedom, a jury of twelve honest men,\\nReversed their Court and doctors and showed forth their per-\\njured sin.\\nThe details of these awful facts are now put forth by press\\nWith pictures of persons and places set out in proper dress\\nAnd after their publication, the world will truly know,\\nThe wickedest men on earth are at California, County Yolo.\\nAnd they will learn as time rolls b\\\\ r there is a power that rules\\nThat their might did not make right, but made them mortal\\nfools\\nBut God is good and will forgive, all sins so ever great,\\nIf they but come and seek his grace, before it is too late.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nY reason of a series of evoluting circumstances\\nthe victim now found himself a practicing\\nlawyer at Prattsburgh, N. Y., in 1889. And\\naccording to his usual luck in a short space of\\ntime he ran foul of a vile mouthed human\\ncaliope, and during the melee he accused the caliope of\\nbeing guilty and causing the death of little Kippie.\\nKippie was a colored youth who had recently been\\nfound dead in the hotel barn, under circumstances that\\nthe people thought pointed to foul play. His body\\nbeing braised, and he having been in the hotel late at\\nnight a short time before in company with the caliope.\\nThis accusation was taken up as a declaration of war\\nbetween all the drunken habitues of the hotel and the\\nvictim.\\nSo it was but a short time until a little two for five\\nattorney, through the instance of the caliope s conspiracy\\nof drunkards, caused the arrest of the victim upon the\\nfictitious charge, that he commenced law suits without\\ngood grounds.\\nWhile the fact was the little attorney had not been\\nable to win a law suit against the victim up to that time.\\nOf course the accused was taken before one of their own\\nkind, a drunken justice of the peace, and there he gave\\nWilbur Dearlove as bondsman to answer any indictment\\nthat might be found against him.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 181\\nAt the next session of the Grand Jury, the loafers\\nfrom the hotel all went to court, loaded to the muzzle to\\nswear away the liberty of the victim. But the Grand\\nJury soon saw through the outrage and ignored the bill,\\nwith a reprimand against the drunkards for producing\\nsuch a groundless charge.\\nAnd thus ended this little episode, which is only\\nworth mentioning to show, the general good luck of the\\nvictim in attracting the persecution of the criminal and\\ndebauched classes wherever he resides.\\nIt also shows some of the under currents in the sea of\\nlife, that are ever wont to shipwreck the mariner with-\\nout attracting the special notice of those who sail on\\nwithout a breaker to contend with. If it should be\\nasked, why the individual names of some of these con-\\nspirators are not given the same as in the California\\ncombine, the answer is, their general and individual\\ninferiority would not justify the expenditure.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "182 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nN the spring of 1893 our victim located at North\\nTonawanda, N. Y., and has practiced law there\\never since. And his worldly affairs went on in a\\ncommonplace manner until the winter of 1897, at\\nwhich time a charter incorporating the municipality\\ninto a city government was compiled by him, assisted\\nby four other attorneys and a recent acquisition to the\\nRepublican party by the name of McCoy. This was a\\nyear when the political plum trees was full of promise\\nand augered a prolific crop, for these incorporators.\\nThe German American Bank, through a siege of\\nCleveland s inoccuous dessitude, was about to yield its\\nsolvent existence and fall into the arms of one of these\\nincorporators as receiver. This to be receiver, was\\nrecently from Nebraska and once sat there in a State\\nSenator s chair but was now suffering from a depletion\\nof pap caused by the unwarranted ravages of the political\\ngrasshopper. Two others of the incorporators were to\\nreceive, from the great tree of political promise, the\\nattorneyship for the new made city. The new acquisi-\\ntion was to be postmaster, and the victim its city judge.\\nBut, alas, for these great plans of these great men.\\nThe great tree was shaken by the adverse winds of high\\nhope and great planning. And the rich succulent fruit\\nfell not as planned, but into the laps and baskets of\\nthose, who toiled not neither did they spin.\\nThe Solon from Nebraska was now bereft of the rich\\nemoluments of a bank receivership and his grief was\\ntruly sorrowful to behold. But yet undaunted and", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 183\\nundismayed he girded himself, and chaperoned by-\\nAssemblyman Warner, heels overhead he dove into the\\npolitical fruit basket, in quest of this city attorneyship\\nwhich he and his partner had so solemnly vouchsafed to\\nothers. And so in mete and proper time he emerged\\ntherefrom, like the prodigal, lone and empty handed.\\nThe political plum chance was now fast growing pain-\\nfully less and financially excruciating. Something must\\nbe quickly and effectively done or all hope for gathering\\nfruit from this season s crop would be lost and perhaps\\nforever gone.\\nAnd as the judgship of the new city was the only fruit\\nleft, on which they could hope to satisfy their gna wings,\\nthey attempted to land the same in their basket. It\\nseemed an easy matter, for Assemblyman Warner, one\\nof these attorneys, and incorporators, had the charter in\\ncharge before the Legislature and he could easily change\\nthe same by taking the power for appointing the judge\\naway from the governor, and giving it to the mayor of\\nthe new city; who would appoint his law partner, the\\nNebraska Solon, instead of the victim.\\nThe change was accordingly and quietly made, but\\nwas soon found out by the victim, who at once com-\\nmenced to inform different members of their party of\\nthe base treachery this twain were practicing. And so\\nit was when the mayor offered the judgship to the\\nSolon, it was so politically hot that he dare not even\\ntouch it for fear it would burn up all his future hopes\\nand political aspirations. Besides the treachery of this\\ntwain, to the incorporators who had been promised a city\\nattorneyship, was still rife and adding fire to these\\npolitical flames. And one who neither toiled nor spun\\nreceived the fruit.\\nAnd so it was that the treachery of this twain of", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nlawyers, Henry E. Warner and James P. Lindsay,\\nserved as the inocculating virus that blasted their own\\npolitical future, and finally grew and so ripened that\\nit caused the criminal persecution and attempt to murder\\nthe victim at North Tonawanda, N. Y., though these\\ntwo lawyers named had no criminal connection with\\nsuch attempted murder.\\nIt was during the month of June, 1898, our victim\\ndrew and filed with the city clerk of the new city a\\nchattel mortgage securing the payment of fifty dollars.\\nHe did so at the special request of both the mortgagor\\nand mortgagee. By mistake he wrote one cart in\\nthe mortgage when he should have written two carts,\\nboth being worth not to exceed $5.00.\\nA few days after this, he was making a copy of the\\nmortgage and corrected his error by making it read two\\ncarts instead of one cart. The innocent and legiti-\\nmate change made in this mortgage so as to make it\\nconform to the wishes of both parties, was attempted to\\nbe twisted and tortured into an unlawful mutilation\\nof records, which if true would have sent the victim to\\nState s Prison and disbarred him. So upon this point\\nhe took issue with the political cormorants seeking to\\ndevour him, and the battle thus precipitated by a horde\\nof hungry politicians was fought to a successful judicial\\ndetermination in the victim s favor, as you shall see.\\nThe twain of little lawyers were now in great glee, the\\nwonderful discovery had been made, by the ever-sober\\nand watchful city clerk, that would surely result in\\nfinally and forever destroying the power and influence\\nof the one who had blocked their game of treachery and\\nprevented one of them being city judge.\\nNow was their time to make a ten strike for keeps.\\nThe end of his tether was in sight and his final ruin was", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 185\\nonly a matter of time. Jack Ryan, the officious Chief\\nof Police, was now consulted and of course he advised\\nthe immediate arrest of the victim, and rendered quite\\nuseful service to his enemies; and it seemed as though\\nthere was a rivalry between him and Postmaster McCoy\\nas to which could in a half secret way, do the victim s\\nreputation the most injury, and thus sycophant the\\nfavor of his persecutors.\\nThe city clerk with bated breath and feverish brow\\nwas aching to be directed by the twain to swear out the\\nnecessary warrant, and thus get even for a fancied defeat\\nin not receiving the appointment for first assistant post-\\nmaster at North Tonawanda. The fastidious Can Can\\ndancer, the mayor, together with a few others were\\npanting for a chance to take part in the destruction of\\na single individual.\\nBut here was a broken and insolvent mortgagor; he\\nmust be seen and kept in line, for if he should swear to\\nthe truth and say, that he wanted the change made it\\nwould be all off and the wanted sacrifice could not be\\nmade. Besides, maybe, he had already talked too\\nmuch and told someone, that he desired to have the\\ninstrument read as it had been made to read. And the\\nfact and proof was, he had told his old time friend,\\nJames Skens, (whom the victim had sued) that he had\\ninstructed the victim to make the change in the mortgage.\\nBut they did not know this for if they had the mortgagor\\ncould not have gotten the money, which he so much\\nwanted and obtained from them.\\nThe assemblyman and clerk were now buzzarding\\naround the poor insolvent and according to evidence he\\nwas offered a large sum of money if he would swear\\nso as to send the victim to State s Prison. This he\\npromised to do according to the evidence of his old", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "186\\nNEW YORK EPISODES.\\nfriend Skene, and did so swear to the best of his ability,\\nbut failed as we shall see later on. In the meantime the\\nSolon who was now acting as city attorney was learnedly\\nand laboriously engaged in preparing the necessary\\npapers that was to result in the final destruction of\\nthe victim.\\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY HOPKINS.\\nSo in due course of fixing matters up the victim was\\narrested and charged with the aforesaid fictitious crime\\nand brought before the ignorant Cadi for examination\\nbut rather than submit to such a farce he gave the\\nnecessary bonds to the Grand Jury.\\nDistrict Attorney Hopkins was now a candidate for\\nre-election, and the victim s enemies were in the political\\nsaddle at the new city, and of course the District\\nAttorney wanted their votes and assistance in securing", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 187\\nhis re-election. It was now getting near the time for\\nthe September term of the Grand Jury, and the victim\\nhad obtained an affidavit showing the insolvent mort-\\ngagor had told his old friend James Skene, that Henry\\nE. Warner and crowd had offered him a good sum of\\nmoney to swear so as to send the victim to State s\\nPrison.\\nThe district attorney was presented with such affidavit\\nby some of the ablest men in the county. And, in sub-\\nstance, advised to drop the farce and not try to disgrace\\nthe accused for there was nothing in the charge but spite\\nand revenge from beginning to end and that it would\\nend in a fizzle and the persecutors would get hurt worse\\nthan the persecuted. But he was obdurate and would\\nnot yield to such proper advice, and presented the case\\nto the Grand Jury, who ignored the bill and refused to\\nfind an indictment.\\nNow the District Attorney on finding out the Grand\\nJury had ignored the bill and voted not to indict the\\nvictim, went in before them and there contrary to his\\nduty, and contrary to the proper requirements and\\nfunctions of his office, and as is here contended contrary\\nto the law; worked, worried and labored against the\\nvictim, and finally succeeded in coaxing and inducing\\nthe Grand Jury to re-consider its vote of ignoring the\\naccusation against the victim, and vote in favor of\\nindicting him which they did by the bare requisite\\nnumber of twelve men.\\nNow the district attorney did this, knowing from this\\naffidavit that the principal witness was to receive a big\\nsum of money to so swear so as to send the victim to\\nprison, and without calling the maker of this affidavit\\nbefore the Grand Jury so that they might hear his testi-\\nmony. Anil when the case came on for trial at the", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "188 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nfollowing October term of court, the district attorney\\ntried various tricks and wiles to prevent a trial at such\\nterm., and thus keep the indictment hanging over the\\nvictim, but he was forced to a trial of the indictment,\\nhe had thus succeeded in getting, and the jury very soon\\nacquitted the persecuted victim.\\nIt came out in the evidence on the trial of this indict-\\nment that the insolvent mortgagor had been offered a\\ngood sum of money from Mayor J. V. Smeaton, City\\nClerk George Cramer, City Attorney James P. Lindsay,\\nand his law partner, Assemblyman Henry E. Warner,\\nto swear so as to shove the victim up to send him to\\nprison. And this insolvent mortgagor swore directly on\\nsuch incriminating center line, but was contradicted by\\nthree witnesses.\\nNow as a matter of fact at the time the insolvent\\nmortgagor was wanted to be used as aforesaid, Mayor\\nSmeaton and Clerk Cramer made their promissory note\\nfor ninety dollars ($90.00) due October 16, 1898, and\\nraised the money on it at the State Bank of North\\nTonawanda, N. Y., and it was given to Henry E.\\nWarner, and he and the insolvent mortgagor both went\\nto Buffalo with it where it was paid to Ira H. Meyer,\\nthe mortgagee, for the mortgagor s use and benefit, less\\n$15.00 which Mr. Warner kept.\\nSo we have the evidence that shows the insolvent\\nmortgagor was to get a good sum of money from Mayor\\nSmeaton, City Attorney Lindsay, Clerk Cramer, and\\nHenry E. Warner to swear to a lie so as to shove the\\nvictim up and to send him to prison and also the evi-\\ndence that the mortgagor swore to such lies according to\\nthe contradiction of three witnesses.\\nAnd here are also the facts showing that such mort-\\ngagor got a good sum of money from them as he said he", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 189\\nwould, except it is not shown that Mr. Lindsay had any\\ndirect connection in raising or paying this money.\\nIt is a fact that when the district attorney obtained\\nthis indictment he was an aspirant for re-election; that\\nwhen he tried the indictment he was a candidate for\\nre-election; that these enemies persecuting the victim\\nwere practically in control of the city government at\\nNorth Tonawanda, and of the machinery of the Repub-\\nlican party there that they had many votes and could\\ncontrol many more on this election, and the district\\nattorney wanted these votes for his election, and that\\nthey wanted the district attorney to indict and persecute\\nthe victim Now, do not all these facts taken together\\nshow, why this district attorney prosecuted this innocent\\nvictim as he did?\\nAnd do not such facts show the District Attorney*\\nprosecuted this innocent man to please these politicians\\nat North Tonawanda, so as to get their votes and\\ninfluence to re-elect him District Attorney?\\nWhat must the people think of the District Attorney\\nwho would get an indictment against an innocent man\\nas here shown? What must the people think of their\\ndistrict attorney who prosecuted an innocent man on\\nbribed testimony as here shown? Is any innocent man\\nsafe if such a man is district attorney? How would it\\ndo for him and District Attorney Sprague of California\\nto go into partnership? Don t the acts here stated, and\\nthe proper inference therefrom, show them to be well\\nmated? Isn t the exposure of these fellows for the\\npublic good and in the interest of good morals and of\\ngood government? We think so and hence it is done.\\nThe mayor and his sattelites now had control of the\\npolitical machinery of North Tonawanda and he secured\\nhis renomination while Mr. Lindsay secured the nomi-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "190 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nnation for city judge in 1899 just following this perse-\\ncution of the victim. The victim then published these\\ncriminal facts against them openly charging this crime\\nof bribery and had a printed copy of such charge placed\\nin every house in the city, and of course the result of\\nthe election was they were all defeated, and the gallant,\\nvaliant mayor soon migrated to Spider Lake, Wisconsin.\\nBut before he went and smarting under the detection\\nand exposure here stated, this mayor and the city clerk\\ncame to the Davenport Flats where the victim resided\\nin June, 1899, about ten o clock at night, loaded with\\nliquor on the inside and guns on the outside to kill and\\ndestroy him. They sent a messenger to the flat for to\\nhave the victim come down.\\nHe hesitated some little time before he concluded to\\n.go because he was satisfied their intention was to do\\nhim mortal injury, and he did not desire any trouble or\\nbloodshed but he finally made up his mind they would\\nnever let him alone until something was done, and he\\nmight as well close the chapter with them then and\\nthere in some way as at any other time. So without\\nreplacing his hat or coat he went to where they were\\nwith both hands in his pants pocket.\\nThey opened the seance by attempting to get him into\\na wrangle of words, but he remained and acted quietly\\non the defense.\\nThe Clerk foamed around and made some threats and\\ndemonstrations against him and ran his hand into the\\nback pocket of his pants and pulled up a revolver in\\nsight a couple of times, but did not take the same\\nentirely out of his pocket. The victim was very thank-\\nful the clerk did not get his gun out, for if he bad, per-\\nhaps this story would not have been written at the pre-", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 191\\nsent time, but if it had it would be with different results,\\nfrom that night s seance, than at present.\\nIt should be added that only the opportune presence\\nof Janitor Todman, at the time the clerk assayed to pull\\nhis gun, who grabbed and slammed him against the side\\nof the building saved all hands future trouble. For the\\nclerk was just drunk enough to imagine that he was a\\nbrave man, and to ran a bluff which could not have\\nbeen successfully done at that time and place. For the\\nvictim had stood about all the persecution that he could\\nbe expected to stand especially when such drunken\\nloafers came after him at such time of night at his own\\nhouse.\\nAs it was, these maudlins slunk away and no blood\\nwas shed. Neither did the victim make any public\\ntalk or demonstration about this little attempt to kill\\nhim, for he realized there would be no use in so doing\\nor hoping for any successful criminal prosecution of\\nthese fellows on account of the relation and attitude of\\nthe district attorney with them and they with him.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "192 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nI y *HE last and most contemptible vicissitude in this\\nkaleidiscope of persecution is briefly narrated as\\nv follows: In January, 1899, a young woman\\nname Julia Johnson about seventeen years of\\nage and accompanied by her physician came to\\nthe victim s law office at North Tonawanda, N. Y., and\\nthere told him a most pitiful and sympathetic story,\\ndetailing how she had been raped on Christmas night,\\n1898, by each of three young men on Grand Island,\\nopposite the City of Buffalo, N. Y. She was without\\nmeans to prosecute these fellows and so her case was\\ntaken on the usual terms of one-half the recovery after\\nthe costs and expenses of prosecution were paid.\\nOn the examination of these cases before the magis-\\ntrate and before the referee the undisputed evidence\\nshowed She had previously settled her cases for $45.00;\\nalso that she had a private disease, and had told one of\\nher alleged ravishers so on that Christmas night; also\\nthat she had been drinking liquor and riding back and\\nforth on the Grand Island feny boat that day with one\\nof them, who was a deck hand on the boat, and who\\ntook her riding that evening at her solicitation and\\nreturned with her at 10 o clock.\\nThe evidence of these three young men whom she\\naccused flatly contradicted her, two of them had never\\nseen her before. And the fathers of these young men\\neach swore their boys were at their respective homes\\nall that Christmas night, except one of them who had\\nher out driving until about 10 o clock; and there was", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 193\\nnot a particle of legal, corroborating evidence to sustain\\nher. So these young men were discharged by the\\nmagistrate.\\nIn the meantime the victim had sued these young\\nmen on these charges of rape for civil damages, and\\nafter they were discharged by the magistrate it was\\nalmost plain that the civil actions could not be success-\\nfully prosecuted; so a compromise was effected for\\n$250.00 in each case. And while the money yet lay on\\nthe victim s desk where it was paid to him by the\\nopposing attorney, and while stipulations of discontin-\\nuance of these actions were being signed, this young\\nwoman came in the victim s law office and sat down by\\nthe desk and without waiting to finish signing these\\npapers, the victim gladly and impulsively then and\\nthere in the presence of this adverse attorney counted\\nout of this same money $350.00 and handed it to Miss\\nJohnson, who received the same and said she was satis-\\nfied.\\nShe then left the victim s office and told the magistrate\\nshe had settled her civil cases and showed him the\\nmoney, or some of it, she had just received from the\\nvictim and she subsequently told her physician in the\\nhearing of another gentleman that she had received\\n$350.00 from Mr. Sullivan and $45.00 from the Grand\\nIslanders out of her cases and she never returned to the\\nvictim s office after this time, but took up her abode at\\nBuffalo, N. Y., where she got in with a young lawyer\\nwho became so much interested in her, that he had her\\nalleged rape cases presented to the Grand Jury, which\\nrefused to indict these young men. This made their\\nfathers considerable trouble and caused them to reflect,\\nthat they were foolish to pay this money, in the first", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "194 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\ninstance, because there was not sufficient evidence upon\\nwhich to base an indictment.\\nNow Ossian Bedell is a friend and neighbor of these\\nGrand Islanders; he is also one of the General Com-\\nmitteemen of the Republican organization of Erie\\nCounty, N. Y. He and ex- Judge Lewis are acquaint-\\nances and friends for years, often standing in the rela-\\ntion of client and attorney. Now there is a young\\nattorney at Buffalo who read law in the Judge s office,\\nand presently this young attorney is imbued with an\\nactive idea that the victim should pay into court all of\\nthis $750. 00 that he had received in these cases, which\\nof course the victim refused to do for the reasons already\\nstated. Whereupon and through the forms of law this\\nyoung attorney had the victim to appear on a motion\\nbefore the recently appointed Judge Kruse, for the\\nostensible purpose of having a Referee appointed to\\ntake proof and report why he should not be compelled\\nto pay all of this $750.00 in court for the use of Miss\\nJohnson, she now claiming she never had received any\\nof this money.\\nOn the hearing of this motion the victim presented\\nthe affidavit of four persons which showed Miss John-\\nson had received all the money she was entitled to as\\nstated, while her sole affidavit directly contradicted this\\ncontention. These conflicting affidavits raised an issue\\nof fact between an attorney and his client and entitled\\nthe attorney to a jury trial.\\nThe fact of a person being an attorney does not deprive\\nhim of the right to have a question of fact, of this kind,\\ntried by a jury.\\nThe law and practice in the courts of the country and\\nthe decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of\\nAppeals of this State establish the: law to be that when", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 195\\na substantial issue of fact is raised on a motion of this\\nkind between an attorney and his client, it ought and\\nmust be tried by a jury, and not in a summary manner\\nby the court. And the court on hearing such a motion\\nshould deny the same leaving the applicant to begin a\\nregular action in a court of law if they so desire.\\nNotwithstanding these facts and law, Judge Kruse\\ngranted an order of reference to Henry H. Seymour to\\ntake proof about this matter and report to the court.\\nHe also refused to require the plaintiff to give bonds for\\ncost. But another Judge of the Supreme Court subse-\\nquently granted an order requiring the plaintiff to give\\nbonds for costs in the sum of $250.00. And this is the\\nsame judge the Republican organization of Erie County\\ntried to politically throw overboard last year. Why\\nJudge Kruse made this order of reference contrary to\\nthe practice and law we do not say, but leave the reader\\nto judge the same after the facts and circumstances are\\nstated.\\nIf an order of reference had not been made and the\\nparties had been required to begin an action at law, then\\nunder the law, the victim could not have been arrested\\nherein as he subsequently was. Judge Kruse is pre-\\nsumed to know this law; and at the time he granted\\nthis order of reference, and is yet aspiring for the\\nRepublican nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court\\nat the coming election this fall.\\nAnd at the time such order of reference was made,\\nthis same, powerful, Republican, General Committee-\\nman, Ossian Bedell, was in court with his aforesaid\\nattorney, ex- Judge Lewis and neither of them had any\\nopen, public business there, with the court; though the\\nex- judge was up at the Bench whispering or rather talking\\nin a low tone to Judge Kruse, and then back again", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "196 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nseated by the side of Mr. Bedell and whispering to him\\nand each of them occasionally looking at the victim,\\nbefore this order of reference was granted; and they\\nremained in court until the referee was appointed,\\nwhich was a long time after the opening of court that\\nmorning and the last business done by the court that\\nmorning, as shown by the record kept by the Special\\nDeputy Clerk of Court. All of these facts and circum-\\nstances were ominous to the victim, and viewing them\\nfrom his standpoint of experience and persecution, as\\nhere partially related, meant much to him; though they\\nmight not mean very much to one whose past life had\\nbeen one of ease and little experience. There can be no\\nreasonable doubt of the proper conclusion to be inferred\\nfrom these facts. And we leave the reader to make it.\\nThe Referee made two separate reports to the Court,\\ncontaining several statements of facts supposed and\\nrequired to be based on the evidence taken before him.\\nThese statements were nearly all against the victim and\\nhis interest; and among them were five statements\\nwhich were not based upon the evidence, some of them\\nhaving no evidence whatever to sustain them, the others\\nbeing contrary to the evidence.\\nAt the time the Referee made his reports to the Court,\\nhe also presented his findings of fact supposed and\\nrequired to be based on the evidence taken by him.\\nThere were nine separately numbered paragraphs of these\\nfacts, nearly all of which were against and prejudicial\\nto the interest of the victim. And among the facts\\nfound by the referee in these paragraphs were four facts\\nfound against the victim s interest, and some of these\\nhad no evidence whatever to sustain them, and the\\nothers were directly contrary to the evidence.\\nSo here were nine statements of facts made by the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES.\\n197\\nreferee, none of which were sustained in any manner by\\nthe evidence, and were therefore false.\\nThese reports were made and presented in such an\\nunfair and garbled a manner that they made the victim\\nJUDGE CHILOS.\\nand his side of the proceeding appear in a much more\\nunfavorable manner than the evidence warranted.\\nBesides the reports were interlarded with great chunks", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "198 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nof self laudation and misstatements of the law, which if\\nall taken with the findings at their full face expression\\nwould unjustly injure the victim.\\nWhen these reports and these findings came before\\nJudge Childs for confirmation, the victim was proceed-\\ning as best he could to show they should not be con-\\nfirmed, because so many of them were false, and he sb\\ncharacterized them. Whereupon the Court interrupted\\nhim and in substance said: The Referee is an officer\\nof the court and his findings must not be called false,\\nbut that the victim might say, they were not properly\\nsustained by the evidence; and that his course in thus\\nattacking the referee would cause the court to sustain\\nhim if it possibly could. The victim in substance\\nreplied: That he could not presume the Court would\\nsustain any one unless they were right. And after that,\\nthe discussion of these findings soon closed and the\\ncourt took the papers and said he would read all the\\nevidence.\\nOf course Judge Childs confirmed these reports and\\nthese findings of the referee and by order made them\\nthe findings of the court, thus pronouncing them all\\nveritable facts and solid truth. And granted an order\\nthat the victim should pay into Court more money than\\nhe received from these actions.\\nAnd the Judge wrote an opinion on confirming these\\nreports and findings in which he said, he had carefully\\nread the testimony, and then says: From such testi-\\nmony, it appears that Sullivan commenced three several\\nactions in behalf of Julia Johnson, by her guardian ad\\nlitem as above entitled, for the purpose of recovering in\\neach of said actions the damages sustained by said\\nJohnson by reason of an assault and battery alleged to", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 199\\nhave been committed upon her by the defendants in said\\naction.\\nThe actions described in the above quotation from\\nJudge Child s opinion were never commenced but other\\nactions as already stated had been commenced. The\\ntestimony does not show that actions for assault and\\nbattery had been commenced as stated in such opinion.\\nThe words assault and battery were not used in the\\nevidence nor in any of the proceedings herein, until\\nJudge Childs used them himself. Hence it is an evi-\\ndent fact, that the statement in relation to these actions\\nfor assault and battery is false, and Judge Childs\\nknew the same before he wrote his opinion.\\nThis might be considered a small matter to say so\\nmuch about, if it were not written by a judge of the\\nSupreme Court, acting in his official capacity, and put\\nin his opinion, where he undertakes to impeach the\\nhonor and take away the property of the individual,\\nwhose every interest he is bound to lawfully protect in\\nhis capacity as judge. But under these conditions such\\nfalsehoods become of the greatest importance and\\naffects not only the victim, but the people of the whole\\nState.\\nIn this same opinion, Judge Childs inserted the\\nfollowing false statement concerning the victim: It\\nwas insisted by Sullivan upon the argument, that the\\nclaim of the plaintiff Johnson against the defendants in\\nthese actions was fraudulent and unfounded, which fact\\nwas known to him at the time he received the moneys\\nwith which he is sought to be charged on these motions,\\nand that the defendant in these actions were guiltless of\\nany assault upon said plaintiff, although willing to pay\\nthe sum received by him for the purpose of preventing", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nany public charge of the nature embraced in said\\nactions.\\nAnd then the judge proceeds to argue from this false\\nstatement and says: Just how this would relieve Sulli-\\nvan is not apparent; but it is quite likely that such\\nclaim on his part did not tend, as it ought not, to\\nenhance the value of his testimony in the opinion of the\\nreferee. The victim says Neither is it apparent to\\nhim how the referee could be affected in relation to the\\nvalue of his testimony, by reason of this false statement\\nof the judge, which was not made until after the referee s\\nreport was made. How could such a physical impossi-\\nbility exist as the Judge s opinion here implies.\\nThe words in the foregoing quotation, which are the\\nmost vicious and around which all others circle and\\nseem to take root and grow, are the words, fraudulent\\nand unfounded. And these words the opposing\\nattorney, Mr. Ladd, says the victim did not use. Mr.\\nLadd has made such statement several times to the\\nvictim and in the presence and hearing of other persons\\nSo we think here is sufficient evidence to prove the\\nvictim did not use these words. And if he did not use\\nthem, he could not have used the others in the quota-\\ntion; because they are so dovetailed with the others that\\nto take them out, the others could not be used as stated\\nin the opinion. Besides the victim says he did not use\\nthe language attributed to him or anything like it.\\nIf the victim had insisted on the argument as the\\njudge says in this quotation from his opinion, then the\\nvictim must be a fool or crazy to have thus plead his\\nown infamy. And as he is not charged with being a\\nfool and has proved the crazy charge to be false by the\\nbest of authority, by the safeguard to the people s lives,\\nliberty, and property; namely, a jury of twelve men;", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 201\\nwe think it is fair, just and true to conclude he never\\nused the language attributed to him.\\nBut he did say in substance on this argument, that\\nafter the discharge of the accused persons he was satisfied\\nfrom the evidence taken on their criminal examination,\\nthat these civil actions could never be successfully pro-\\nsecuted. And he here says, that is the reason why he\\ndiscontinued them.\\nThis order made by Judge Childs, confirming the\\nreferee s report and ordering the victim to pay into court\\nmore money than he received, has been appealed to the\\nAppellate Division of the Supreme Court, where there\\nare five judges who sit in review. This opinion of\\nJudge Childs must be printed with the other papers on\\nappeal and there it will be read by these judges, who will\\nsee from this quoted paragraph that Sullivan is a self-\\nconfessed scoundrel, and the Appellate Court would then\\nnecessarily affirm Judge Child s order. Read this\\nquotation again and you will see that it is much more\\nvicious than we here say it is. To be falsely accused\\nby a judge on the bench of having confessed and plead\\nhis own infamy, the way this paragraph puts it, is too\\nmuch for the victim to stand. He will not stand it\\nhe will strike back in self defense if he perish by the\\nblow.\\nIs it not a God given principle sanctified by the blood\\nof our Revolutionary ancestors that all men are created\\nequal. On such principle is not the victim s honor as\\nsacred to him as that of Judge Childs is to him. Then\\nwhat right had Judge Childs, or how can he be justified\\nor excused for inserting an untrue statement in his judi-\\ncial opinion, that may forever destroy the victim s\\nhonor as well as take away his property?\\nIf it were true, that Sullivan insisted on the argument", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nof this report, that the claims upon which he obtained\\nthe money were fraudulent and unfounded, why did\\nnot Judge Childs make an order that this money should\\nbe paid back to the persons from whom it was obtained?\\nInstead of ordering it paid into court, where the\\nplaintiff, her attorney, and referee might eventually get\\nit? This was a summary proceeding and he acting as\\na court with equitable powers therein had unquestioned\\nauthority to make any order the justice of the case\\nrequired; and why did he not make such an order?\\nThe referee in this proceeding is already well- cared for,\\nbeing Deputy Commissioner of Jurors appointed by the\\njudges and provided with a good, fat salary.\\nA brief summary might be made here as follows The\\nRepublican nomination for Supreme Judge in this dis-\\ntrict at Buffalo is equivalent to an election. Here is\\nJudge Kruse, an aspirant for such Republican nomi-\\nnation, making an order of reference contrary to the law\\nand practice in such cases, with this powerful Republi-\\ncan General Committeeman of Erie County present,\\nnamely, Ossian Bedell, also his old time Republican\\nfriend, ex- Judge Lewis, neither of them having any\\ncourt business there as shown by the record. Yet they\\nremain in court a long time and until this order is\\nmade, with the ex-judge going up to the bench and there\\ntalking to Judge Kruse in a low tone and then returning\\nsitting by, and whispering to Mr. Bedell.\\nHenry H. Seymour, who is an appointee of the\\nseveral judges as Deputy Commissioner of Jurors, now\\njust happens to be sitting in court, and Judge Kruse\\nappoints him Referee; and he makes these nine false\\nstatements and findings of facts as aforesaid with a\\ngarbled report, and that his fees are about $100.00 to be\\npaid by the victim, all of which are confirmed by the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 203\\norder of Judge Childs as veritable facts and truths, at\\nthe same time ordering the victim to pay into court\\nmore money than he received in the matter, where the\\nplaintiff, her attorney, and this referee might eventually\\nget it.\\nJudge Childs makes a written opinion on this con-\\nfirmation, and in such opinion he uses six lines of type\\nwritten matter in making a statement of fact which he\\nsays appears from the evidence, while the truth is, what\\nthe Judge says appears from the evidence does not\\nappear from the evidence or in the evidence. Hence\\nsuch statement in his deliberate written opinion is un-\\ntrue, is false.\\nAnd a little further on in this opinion the Judge uses\\nnine lines in making a false statement concerning the\\nvictim of the most damaging and dishonorable character\\nand there says the victim made it about himself on the\\nargument; the inevitable effect of which would be to\\ndefeat the victim on appeal from his confirmation\\norder, if such statement could not be contradicted in\\nsome way. Fine fixing up for a judge, isn t it?\\nThe acts of these judges and referee practically say\\nthe victim must surrender his honor and property con-\\ntrary to the law and practice of the Court, and upon a\\nstatement of several facts nine of which are false; and\\nthat the victim, his adverse attorney, the justice of the\\npeace, the girl s own physician, and another gentleman\\nall swore false in trying to cheat her out of her share of\\nthis money. And then Judge Childs rivets this, at both\\nends, here and at the appellate division, by the last\\nquoted false statement from his opinion wherein he\\nstates, the victim insisted on a state of facts, which\\nwould show him to be a scoundrel.", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "204\\nNEW YORK EPISODES.\\nA public office is a public trust and he who betrays\\nthe same should be called to account before the public.\\nAnd the one who calls such officer to account renders\\nthe public a good service, whether the same is done in\\nself defense, for the public good, or for both such\\nreasons.", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 205\\nNOTHER little episode, in which the public\\nhave an interest, we think ought to be stated\\nhere. In September, 1899, one Edward\\nPlunkett, had been indicted at Lockport, N.\\nY.j for murder and was brought before\\nthe court for arraignment, without counsel, Justice\\nChilds presiding. Section 308 C. C. Pro. reads: If\\nthe defendant appear for arraignment without counsel,\\nhe must be asked if he desire the aid of counsel, and if\\nhe does the court must assign counsel. The only\\nquestion asked Mr. Plunkett on this arraignment was\\nhow he plead guilty or not guilty; and he was not asked\\nif he desired the aid of counsel, and counsel was not\\nassigned him at that time as required by the law just\\ncited. Now the question is, why did Judge Childs\\nignore and violate this section of the law, and thus\\ndeprive an unfortunate man about to be tried for his\\nlife of his legal rights?\\nPerhaps the following facts may explain P. F. King\\nof Lockport, N. Y. is one of the ablest lawyers in the\\nState. He is a Democrat and has been district attorney\\nof Niagara County six years since this judge has been\\non the bench. All know the judge is a Republican.\\nThe prisoner was without means to Employ an attorney,\\nand the law has generously provided a $500 00 fee and\\ndisbursements for the attorney assigned to defend such\\na prisoner. It had been quite generally known for some\\ntime that Mr. King had been selected by the prisoner to\\ndefend him and expected the court to make such assign-", "height": "3561", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "206 NEW YORK EPISODES.\\nment. Mr. King was in court at the time of this arraign-\\nment and expected the court would ask the prisoner the\\nquestions required by Section 308 cited so the prisoner\\nwould have a chance to speak and make his desires\\nknown to the court; but the court adjourned and after-\\nwards made an order assigning the previously mentioned\\nJames P. Lindsay to defend the prisoner. Mr. Lindsay\\nhad never tried a criminal case in a court of record in\\nthis State. But he was a Republican, mixing in poli-\\ntics. The Judge also assigned another Republican poli-\\ntician to the defense of this prisoner but this attorney\\nis an able, eloquent person, the peer of any man in the\\nState. These two attorneys received this $500.00 fee\\nand disbursements.\\nWithin the past fourteen years, the victim has been\\nfalsely accused, falsely arrested, falsely imprisoned\\nfalsely prosecuted, feloniously poisoned, feloniously\\nshot at and attempted to be murdered with knives,\\nbullets and poison at times and places too\\nnumerous to mention; and now he is sought\\nto be unlawfully dishonored and despoiled of his\\nproperty in this proceeding in the way here pointed out\\nSo is it not time for him to call a halt in this march of\\nsecret war, and publicly demand a disbandment of the\\narmy of persecutors and dismissal of its officers? Is he\\nnot as a matter of self preservation and self defense\\ncompelled to adopt such a course? And is it not in the\\ninterest of good morals and good government, to have\\nthe public thus informed with living examples of these\\nsecret evils; that will eventually destroy the vitals of\\nthe nation if Jthey are not discovered and destroyed?\\nThe duty and necessity of writing and publishing this\\nlittle book of facts is forced upon the victim. If he\\ndoes not do it, he will be secretly boycotted until the", "height": "3552", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "californiaconspi00sull_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK EPISODES. 207\\nmeans of making a living through his life long pro-\\nfession is wrested from him. 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