Napa County CA Archives Obituaries.....McDonald, Alexander November 11, 1874
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from History of Napa and Lake Counties (1881)

Killing of ALEXANDER MCDONALD.---Silverado, the scene of this homicide, was the
name of the silver mine on St. Helena Mountain. Franklin Headley, of that place,
missed a bottle of whiskey, and suspected that McDonald, commonly known as
"Scotty," had stolen it. On the morning of November 11, 1874, quite early, he
went to the house where "Scotty" lived and called him out to shake hands with
him. As they clasped hands Headley dealt him a furious blow on the head with a
heavy instrument which he held concealed in his left hand, from the effects of
which the man soon expired. Headley was arrested subsequently at the Mountain
Mill House.

Additional Comments:
Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San
Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), page 153.

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