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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

BARTON'S BAIL-BOND.

   A curious and somewhat amusing incident occurred at Quincy, in 1860. In
September of that year, a man named Jim Barton was held in custody for
burglariously opening a safe at Jamison City, and getting caught afterwards.
Bail was granted him; but being friendless as well as dishonest, he could not
procure bondsmen who would be responsible for his reappearance in court. To
obtain his temporary freedom, he was compelled to deposit one thousand dollars
in gold coin in the hands of John D. Goodwin, the county clerk. Goodwin had a
vault or safe in his office; but being afraid to trust its impregnancy,
deposited the bag of gold in his office stove for safe keeping. The same day a
fire was built in the stove by Goodwin, who had forgotten about the treasure it
contained, and the bag was destroyed. On the same night an attempt was made to
rob the clerk's safe, supposed to have been done by Barton to recover his
property. The following morning, upon learning of the attempted burglary,
Goodwin remembered the disposition he had made of the funds, anxiously rushed to
the stove and raked over the ashes, finding the ducats all safe and sound.
Barton never appeared in court, and the bail money was forfeited.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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