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Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but additional newspaper extracts may be found at URL:
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Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch; <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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<Wednesday, 4 Dec 1872>
A DARK MYSTERY -- One Theory of the Disappearance of the TRUMAN Family --
Key to the Secrets of a Tragedy -- ['Bulletin'] About 10 days ago Captain C.T. BISSELL, Deputy County Surveyor of Contra Costa county, was on a survey of the Tule lands on the San Joaquin river, some 20 miles above Antioch. While on the old river, a western branch of the San Joaquin, he stuck his pole in the ground, and feeling a hard substance, stooped down to remove it. It was a skull, and when the Captain examined it he found a hole behind the ear, evidently the mark of a bullet. Further examination disclosed 3 skulls and 4 almost perfect skeletons, all lying within a few feet of each other. The remains seemed to be those of 2 men, a woman and 2 children. When the bones were brought to him an old resident of Martinez, who is well acquainted with the early history of the country, threw some light on this strange discovery.
THE TRUMAN Disappearance -- 12 years ago a native of Ohio, named TRUMAN, mined in the neighborhood of Mokelumne Hill. He was fortunate, and in a comparatively short period amassed some $50,000 in gold dust. A few years after he made this fortune he sent for his family to Ohio. They came out to him and consisted of his wife, a grown up son, and 2 little children.
When TRUMAN decided on returning to his native State and there investing his fortune, he left the diggings and came to Stockton. There he purchased a flat bottomed boat in which to take his family to San Francisco. They started from Stockton, but never reached San Francisco. Nor was any clue up to Captain BISSELL's discovery ever obtained of their fate.
Now, the general impression amongst those who knew the story is that the remains found on the San Joaquin are those of the TRUMAN family. The theory of the murder is that the assassins learning in Stockton of TRUMAN's departure, hurried down the San Joaquin and concealed themselves in the tule and waited his progress. TRUMAN, coming to the forks of the river took the wrong branch, and turning up the old river instead of continuing down the main stream. Here, where the channel is very narrow, the party was fired upon and killed, and the bodies thrown in the tules. The sediment of the river covered them in the course of time, for the skeletons were found but a few inches beneath the surface when discovered by Captain BISSELL. The locality is 3 miles NW of a cabin known as the "Fisherman's Hut."
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