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

PHILLIPS KILLED BY KELLEY.

   A young Englishman named John Phillips invited a party of his friends to help
him celebrate his birthday at Johnsville, October 6, 1878. While he was
entertaining them in a saloon, one of them, named Thomas Kelley, under the
influence of too much indulgence in the beverage that annually fills our
poor-houses and prisons with an army of victims, excited by a dispute, shot his
entertainer with a revolver. Young Phillips lingered several days, and then
died. Both of the men stood high in the estimation of their employers. Kelley
was brought to trial April 1, 1879, before Judge Clough, R. H. F. Variel
prosecuting, and John D. Goodwin and W. W. Kellogg defending. He was convicted,
and sentenced to pass the remainder of his days in the state prison.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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