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

CRIMINAL ANNALS.

   The criminal annals of any county present a sickening pageant of bloodshed
and death; a sad commentary on the depths of degradation attained by the human
race when governed solely by passion or avarice. Crime is not a pleasant thing
to contemplate, even by the criminal himself, whether before its commission or
after; and most certainly it is not an engaging theme for the timid chronicler,
whose extreme of cruelty has never extended beyond the quondam impaling of a fly
on a pin, or the occasional act of making a dog unhappy with a kettle appendage
to the terminus of his spinal column. Still the facts remain, and form a part,
though by no means (as some imagine) a very important part, of a county's
history. We have made record of a few cases, such as may be of especial interest
to the reader, from the peculiar circumstances under which the crime was
committed, or from the retribution that followed its commission.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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