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Book Title: History Of Contra Costa County, California

   KILLING OF MANUEL SIBRIAN.—Manuel Sibrian was shot and killed with a pistol
by Narciso Miranda on Thursday, July 1, 1880, at the place of the latter's
residence in the San Ramon hills, about a mile southwest of Alamo. Both men were
native Californians of Mexican descent, Miranda about twenty-five and Sibrian
about forty-five years of age. Both were living in the hills on adjoining claims
of supposed Government land— though also claimed by Carpentier as part of the
Sobrante Grant. It is said that there had been bad feeling for a long time
between Miranda and the deceased, arising from disputes as to the rightful claim
of the latter to the land he had been occupying. As we are informed, the land
was taken up on pre-emption claim some years ago by Miranda's father, who had
since died, and who permitted Sibrian to temporarily occupy it when he had
nowhere to put his family, after having been obliged to leave a residence
property he had previously occupied. On the part of the Miranda family it is
asserted that Sibrian, since their father's death, has wrongfully claimed and
insisted on retaining possession of the land as his own. On the day mentioned,
at the meeting that resulted in his death, he went to Miranda's house in anger
and made an attack upon him with a club, to which Miranda responded by shooting
him several times in the abdomen with a revolving Derringer pistol. Miranda was
duly tried, convicted of manslaughter, and, August 11th, sentenced to one year
and one month's imprisonment in the State Prison.

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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