Napa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Clark, John October 23, 1865
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Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), page 149.
Killing of JOHN CLARK.---This homicide occurred in Capelle Valley, about twelve
miles east of Napa City, October 23, 1865. The particulars of it are as follows:
Oscar and John Clark, two brothers, owned a place in Capelle Valley, and had
rented it to Fred. Coombs. On the day of the killing the two Clarks went to the
premises occupied by Coombs, when an altercation occurred, culminating in the
killing of John Clark by Coombs. The latter came to Napa City and gave himself
up, and a Coroner's inquest was held the next day. At that Mrs. Coombs testified
that her husband was sitting in the house occupied by them on a chair, when the
Clark brothers came in and attacked him, asserting that they would dispossess
him of the property by forcible ejectment, and that her husband fired the shots
in self-defense. Oscar Clark was thereupon arrested, and, waiving examination,
was held in the sum of $2000. No further action was taken in the matter.

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