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

THE CRAWFORD-ROSS TRAGEDY.

   Between John A. Crawford, a native of Canada, and Ephraim C. Ross, a native
of Maine, existed a feud for years, that resulted in the death of Ross at the
hands of his enemy, September 28, 1879. On the day in question, while engaged in
a game of cards in a saloon at 20-Mile House, a quarrel arose between the two
men. Crawford left the room, went to his cabin for a revolver, returned to the
saloon, and shot Ross down, without any warning to his victim whatever. He was
tried before Judge Clough on the ninth of the following December, R. H. F.
Variel prosecuting, and W. W. Kellogg defending. The jury found him guilty of
murder in the first degree, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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