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Book Title: History Of Contra Costa County, California

   KILLING OF ENOCH J. DAVIS.—One of the proprietors of the Cumberland House, at
the Black Diamond coal mines, named Enoch J. Davis, died March 1, 1867, from the
effects of a knife-wound inflicted by William Bowen, some ten days prior to the
decease. From the testimony given at the inquest it appears that Bowen and
another party got into a quarrel over a game of cards and were ordered by Davis
to go out of the house to settle their difficulty; they accordingly went out and
after a fist scuffle, returned, still disputing, when Davis again ordered them
away to fight the matter out, at the same time applying some derogatory epithets
to Bowen, upon which he ran to his room and returned with a knife, asking Davis
if he called him a "son of ___," and upon the reply of Davis that he did,
plunged the knife into his breast; then going back to the room, in which there
were several other lodgers, threw the bloody weapon on the table and declared he
would take the life of any man who called him such a name. The wound of Davis
was not thought at first to be mortal, and Bowen remained at the place until
within a few days of the decease, when he left.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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