Napa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Guadalupe, Peter May 21, 1871
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from History of Napa and Lake Counties (1881)

Killing of Peter Guadalupe (Indian).---He was shot and killed by Jesse Walters
in Pope Valley, May 21, 1871. Walters was arrested and brought before Justice L.
N. Duvall for preliminary examination, when the following testimony was
adduced:---James Ingels, sworn: "Have heard threats; the Indian told me about
three or four months ago that Jesse Walters had to leave the country or he would
kill him; also told me about four weeks ago that he intended to kill him, and
showed me the pistol that he was going to do it with; Pete, the Indian, said
that he would kill him on sight." William Clark Ralston, sworn: "I was present
and saw a part of the shooting; there were three shots fired; at the time the
first shot was fired the Indian was running from Jesse; at the second he was
still running; at the third the Indian was on his knees, when he fell and
shortly after expired; * * * about two weeks ago the same Indian came down to
the store and wanted to fight Jesse, who did not want to have anything to do
with him; the Indian was then armed with two pistols and Jesse had none." A true
bill was found against Walters by the Grand Jury, June 21, 1871, and the case
came up for trial October 4th of that year. The following named gentlemen were
on the trial jury: J. A. Johnson, D. O. Hunt, Wm. Owsley, N. E. Stewart, A.
Stafford, D. C. Squibb, E. True, J. N. Bennett, S. W. Jacks, Alex. Korns, S.
Winter and J. McCoombs. They returned a verdict of not guilty.

Additional Comments:
Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San
Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), page 151.

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