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Book Title: History Of Contra Costa County, California

   MURDER OF JESUS DIANA.—The following detailed murder was committed November
12, 1864, under the most revengeful and brutal circumstances. It appears that a
Mexican by the name of Luis Romero had been living in a family of the same
nationality, a few miles from Pinole. In that household was included a young
woman about sixteen years old, the sister of the mistress of the house. This
young girl's name was Jesus Diana. Romero was courting her and was very anxious
to marry her. She, however, refused all his solicitations, whereat he was very
much incensed. Immediately after breakfast, on the morning of the fatal day, he
took his gun and started off, as he said, on a hunting trip. Only a few moments
passed, however, before he came back to the house, and found the married sister
outside at a well near by. The murdered girl was within, washing dishes. He then
went in and stabbed her in the back with a common butcher-knife. Her screams
quickly brought the absent sister to the door. Upon the latter crying out to
Romero to desist, he turned upon her, too, with the same knife, when she ran
away. He called to her not to be afraid, for he should kill himself also. He
then went back, took the gun, which was double-barreled, put it to his own
throat, holding it under the chin so that the charge should pass into his brain,
and thus killed himself. Before doing this, however, he had stabbed the girl in
several places, one of the wounds going entirely through the body.

Additional Comments:
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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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