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

A FOREST-CITY FIGHT.

   A miner named Chapman Hough was fatally wounded in an affray with a Mexican,
Muchaco, at Forest City, on the twelfth of July, 1857. An altercation took place
between the parties in the street opposite Henry's saloon, when Hough struck
Muchaco in the face, and the latter drew his pistol, firing the first time
without effect, but the second shot was fatal to Hough—the ball entering the
stomach and ranging downwards. Hough, though mortally wounded, seized the
pistol, and in the struggle it went off, wounding Muchaco in the thigh. Hough
died the next day. The Mexican was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Kirkpatrick, and
in due course of law was sent to the state penitentiary.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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