Identifier: historyofsandiego00smyt (find matches)
Title: History of San Diego, 1542-1907; an account of the rise and progress of the pioneer settlement on the Pacific coast of the United States ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Smythe, William E. (William Ellsworth), 1861-1922
Subjects: San Diego (Calif.) -- History
Publisher: San Diego, The History Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thetrouble was over, but about fifty of the volunteers refused tobe deprived of their adventure. They arrived in San Diego in LOPEZ HOUSE, OLD TOWN December and went into camp in ^Mission Valley. A variety oftrouble ensued, until the San Diegans began to fear that theirdeliverers from San Francisco constituted a worse menace to thepublic peace than the Indians themselves. Horses were forciblytaken from the settlers and rows occurred in the plaza. PhilipCrosthwaite received an ugly wound, but responded liy shootingone of the volunteers named Watkins, wlio lost a leg in theencounter. At last, the roughs chartered a vessel and returnedto San Francisco, to the great relief of the community. Thieving became so common and so annoying in the early daysof American rule that in 1851 a law was enacted fixing a pen-alty of imprisonment from one to ten years, or by death, in thediscretion of the jury. for taking property to the value of fiftydollars or more. A hard character named James Robinson.
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262 HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO familiarly known as Yankee Jim. suifered the extreme pen-alty for stealing the only row-boat in the liay. The verdict ofthe jury was as follows: Your jurors in the within case of James Robinson have thehonor to return a verdict of guilty and do therefore sentencehim, James Robinson, to be hanged by the neck until dead. CaveJ. Couts, foreman of the jury. The poor fellow could not believe that he was to l)e hangeduntil the very last moment. He appeared to think it all a grimjoke or, at the worst, a serious effort to impress him with theenormity of his evil ways. He was still talking when DeputySheriff Crosthwaite gave the signal. Then the cart was driven

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