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Coroner's inquests

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SACRAMENTO COUNTY CORONER’S INQUESTS

Submitted by Kathie Marynik


KEY: Date - Name LocationCause of DeathNativity Age


1866

 [extracted from Sacramento Daily Union, 1-1-1867]

Jan. 10 – Philip Arnold – Sacramento – suicide by strychnine – Bavaria – 38y

Jan. 12 – John H. Frick – Freeport – blow to head – Germany – 47y

Jan. 18 – Henry Mittendorf – Granite Twp. – natural causes – Germany – 46y

Jan. 27 – Sam Wo – Granite Twp. – blow by unknown person – China

Feb. 15 – John T. Fowler – Waverly House in Sacramento – suicide by pistol – Pennsylvania – 29y

Apr. 6 – John Murphy – Union Hotel in Sacramento – enlargement of heart – Ireland – 40y

Apr.11 – Jacob Hartz – Mormon Island – drowning – 55y

May 3 – Sebastion Hupp – Sacramento – apoplexy – Bavaria – 66y

May 6 – Ah Kong – Folsom – stabbed – China – 30y

June 4 – David Murphy – Sacramento – run over by train – Ireland – 21y

June 6 – John Guckert – Sutterville – delirium & exposure – Germany – 35y

June 7 – Sarah Ellison – Sacramento – apoplexy – Louisiana – 17y

June 8 – Jack Smith – Sutterville – disease of heart – New Jersey – 35y

June 8 – Indian Bill – near Freemont – drowned May 27 – 18y

June 16 – Edward Curran – Sacramento – drowning – Ireland – 30y

June 22 – Gustav Gabler – Sacramento – drowning – California – 7y

July 1 – Jules Morell – Sacramento – congestion of lungs – France – 62y

July 12 – unknown man – Freeport – shot

Aug. 7 – unknown man – Sacramento – drowning

Aug. 16 – A. M. Hayden – Sacramento – suicide – South Carolina – 34y

Aug. 17 – Johannes Rickless – Freeport – drowning – Denmark – 22y

Aug. 20 – Harvey Lee – Sacramento – fractured skull when thrown from buggy – New York – 47y

Aug. 21 – Jean Cheuteux – Sacramento – rupture of aorta – France – 58y

Sep. 13 – Janus C. Bostwick – Folsom – suicide – New York City – 41y

Sep. 15 – Lubin St. John – Deer Creek – hemorrhage of lungs – France – 50y

Sep. 19 – Caroline Rassaria – Sacramento – drowning – California – 10y

Sep. 21 – Ah Cheung – Sacramento – suicide by cutting throat – China – 26y

Oct. 4 – James McNally – Sacramento – suicide by strychnine – 35y

Oct. 12 – Thomas Kelly – found in Sutter Lake – unknown cause – Ireland – 27y

Oct. 22 – Patrick Newman – Sacramento – drowned – Ireland – 38y

Dec. 8 – William Rose – Sacramento – suicide by shooting – Nova Scotia – 33y




1867

[extracted from Sacramento Daily Union, 1-1-1868]

Jan. 1 – Ah Sow – about 4 mi. west of Wall’s Diggings – shot - China

Jan. 6 – Rosario Ures – apoplexy – Mexico – 82y

Jan. 18 – Albert Austin – Brighton Twp. – shot – Massachusetts – 40y

Jan. 30 – Anton Berger – 76 J St., Sacramento – fell down stairs – Germany

Feb. 8 – Michael Yarrow – American River at American Twp. – drowned – Ireland – 30y

Feb. 26 – John W. Miller – Monongabela House – suicide by strychnine on Feb. 25 – Pennsylvania – 40y

Mar. 2 – John Lavery, discharged soldier, Second Inf. CA volunteers – congestion of lungs – Ireland – 42y

Mar. 19 – Eugene Everett Stevens – Sutter Lake – drowned – Calif. – 13y 7m

Mar. 29 – James Quant – Alder Creek – fell into mining shaft while intoxicated & drowned

Apr. 5 – Richard Lovell – poisoned by strychnine by person unknown – England – 52

Apr. 14 – Thomas H. Barry – Sacramento brick yard – drowned – California – 7y 4m 5d

Apr. 22 (supposed) – Frank McCubban – Placerville Rd. 17 mi. from Sacramento – shot – Missouri – 30y

Apr. 23 – David Myers – American River at American Twp. – drowned on Apr. 14 – Virginia – 58y

Apr. 28 – Louis Labiville – Sacramento River – drowned – France – about 50y

May 8 – Henry Bentley – Belvidere Hotel – fell from second floor – England – 54y

June 5 – Robert Fremont Simmons – I Street near Front – run over by train – Massachusetts – 8y 10m

June 12 – John Enright – Sutter Slough – drowned – Ireland – 28y

June 21 – unknown man – found floating in Sacramento River

June 29 – Charles Cossinet, knife & scissor grinder – suicide by hanging – France – 50y

July 1 – Margaret Delany – suicide (supposed) by drowning in reservoir

July 3 – Alton Pierce – Freeport – killed by gunpowder explosion on July 2 – California – 9y 11m 23d

July 3 – Walter Gammon – Bloom Lake at Franklin Twp. – drowned – Tennessee – 37y

July 3 – Henriette Reuff – American River – suicide by drowning – Germany – 48y

July 13 – Mary Edwards – congestion of lungs – England – 35y

July 14 – George Murteshaw – Front St. – burned by alcohol while lighting bonfire – So. Carolina – 30y or 80y

July 19 – unknown man – Sacramento bank of American River

July 20 – R. Lea – Brighton Twp. – suicide by cutting throat – England – 44y

July 22 – J. H. Demarest – grain field on upper Stockton Road about 5 mi. from town – exposure & neglect – Ireland – 40y

Aug. 21 – Tong Ah Wang – Sacramento & Yolo Bridge – suicide by drowning – China – 27y

Aug. 25 – Indian Joe – shot by police officer during arrest for burglary – California – 25y

Aug. 27 – William C. Smith – foot of I St. – drowned when fell from fish market into river – New York – 15y 7m

Sep. 1 – Daniel E. Hastings – Sutterville – accidentally shot by own gun – Ohio – 88y

Sep. 19 – Mrs. Luts or Lutes – suicide by arsenic

Sep. 20 – Andrew Steppe – suicide by strychnine – Germany (supposed) – 65y

Sep. 20 – James Willis – ruptured aneurism of splenic artery – Kentucky – 83y

Sep. 28 – Slias D. Griffith – run over by wagon, breaking his neck – Ohio – 37y

Oct. 18 – Hugh McGartland – new Pacific Railroad Co. bldg. – fractured skull when dragged by horse – Ireland – 46y

Oct. 19 – Foy Wing Hang – corner of I & 5th St. – run over by train – China – 40y

Oct. 26 – George Yuill – near Georgetown – accidentally shot self – Nova Scotia – 23y

Nov. 7 – Chew We Cum (female) – suicide by opium when couldn’t pay her debts – China – 23y

Nov. 25 – Oliver Walcott – ruptured aneurism of aorta – Connecticut – 37y

Nov. 28 – William Wilson – Center Twp. – drowned – New York – 25y



1868

[extracted from Sacramento Daily Union, 1-1-1869]

Jan. 24 – Charles A. Soper – near Folsom – cave-in at mining claim – Maine – 30y

Feb. 2 – Ah Wy – Folsom – bursting of a tail race at mining claim – Azore Island – 25y

Feb. 4 – Harvey Whipple – Telegraph House barn, Sacto. – suicide by shooting self – Vermont – 25y

Feb. 15 – John W. Inniss – Sacramento – suicide by strychnine – New Jersey – 50y

Mar. 1 – John Haley – Sac. – drowned in pond at vacant lot bound by 5th & 6th, O & P streets

Mar. 24 – Edwin Lundquist – Sacramento – shot – Sweden – 38y

Mar. 25 – Arthur Doyle – Sacramento – knifed

Mar. 27 – G. C. S. Vail – Sacramento – congestion of lungs & brains due to excessive drink & injection of morphine into thigh – Pennsylvania – 53y

Apr. 24 – unknown man found floating in Sacramento River

May 1 – Charles Hirschhorn – Sacramento – suicide by shooting – New York – about 25y

May 12 – Mark Barnes – Richmond Grove – accidentally shot – California – 5y

May 21 – Russell Heath – Sacramento – suicide by hanging – Indiana – 28y

May 25 – Thomas Higginson – Saulsbury Station – run over & killed by train – Canada – 4y

May 29 – William Shoemaker – Sacramento – shot – New York – 31y

June 22 – Mary Ann Gallagher – Sacramento – drowning – California – 14m

July 3 – Ah Poin – Sacramento – knifed by brother – China – 35y

July 5 – Richard Brasill – Sacramento – fell down stairs – about 60y

July 12 – George Woodword – found floating in Sac. River near Freeport – cause unknown – New York – 59y

July 27 – unknown Chinaman – found in American River at Cook’s Diggings – believed to be murdered

Aug. 3 – Henry Hubband (colored) – Sacramento – burned to death

Aug. 3 – Mrs. Mary E. Hamill – Sacramento – suicide by cutting throat – Ireland – 33y

Aug. 11 – Capt. Sims (Indian) – county jail – heart disease – California – 35y

Aug. 16 – William Bloomer – Sacramento – congestion of brain

Aug. 21 – Patrick McGuire – Sacramento – natural causes – Ireland – 50y

Aug. 29 – Frederick Schafer – near Tivo’I House – run over & killed by train – Germany – 31y

Sep. 1 – William Shaar – Sacramento – drowning in Sacramento River – Germany – 21y

Sep. 28 – E. B. Dagenais – Sacramento River – suicide by drowning – Canada – 21y

Sep. 28 – T. Brockhart – Folsom – suicide by shooting self – Germany

Sep. 28 – Josiah Shaff – Mormon Island – shot by person unknown

Sep. 29 – A. W. Jackson – near Freeport – accidental discharge of gun in his own hands

Oct. 3 – Henry Loveland – natural causes – Ohio

Dec. 9 – Martin B. Sexton – Sacramento – knifed – Connecticut – 22y

Dec. 10 – John Eanis – Sac. – blows from bludgeon – Ireland – 37y

Dec. 14 – Jacob Gossnickle – found dead in bend of American River – exposure & exhaustion – Indiana




1874

[extracted from Sacramento Daily Union, 1-1-1875]


Apr. 4 – Lewis Fisher – suicide by poison – 40y

Apr. 11 – John Cruse – murdered – Germany – 25y

Apr. 17 – May Ann Hallanan – run over by truck – Missouri – 6y

May 13 – Henry Smith – water on the brain – Germany – 45y

May 15 – Richard Warren – natural causes – England – 34y

May 22 – William Garen – Folsom – run over by the cars

June 12 – William Sanford – near Folsom – accidentally shot

July 1 – Vincent Tortell – suicide by shooting self – Malta – 52y

July 1 – Ah Cow – Sutter Slough – drowning – China

July 11 – Thomas Flynn – found dead in river – 2y

July 25 – John Carrick – skull fracture by blow from club – 37y

Aug. 6 – Mrs. Sarah E. Nye – Mormon Island river – suicide by drowning

Aug. 25 – Richard Galt – drowning – Virginia – 22y

Aug. 27 – Alexander Burnes – thrown from horse – Ohio – 45y

Aug. 28 – William Walter Sims – Folsom – mine cave-in

Aug. 29 – Patrick Mulherrin – congestion of stomach – Ireland – 36y

Sep. 11 – Burkhardt Fichens – suicide by poison – Germany – 40y

Sept. 20 – James Hickey – thrown from horse – 14y

Sep. 30 – Ben Butler – near American River Bridge – 90y

Oct. 3 – H. W. Wessel – natural causes

Oct. 26 – D. P. Heath – suicide by poison – 60

Nov. 3 – Ah Ten – near Folsom – killed by handcar – China

Nov. 14 – Mrs. Gussie M. Cantwell – suicide by poison – Ohio – 30

Nov. 17 – Conrad Himmelman – near Brighton – gravel pit cave-in – Germany – 28

Nov. 17 – Alfred Stephens – near Brighton – gravel pit cave-in – Illinois – 17

Nov. 29 – J. S. Thurston – suicide by shooting self – Alabama – 45

Dec. 3 – W. H. Davidson – Sherman Island – murdered

Dec. 9 – unknown Chinaman – near Folsom in the road

Dec. 23 – Frank Arnold – suicide by cutting throat – 34


 

 

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