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From California Gulch.
The Last of the Smith Tragedy.---
The remains of Smith, from Schuyler Co., Ill., whose death was announced in our last issue, have been interred twelve miles this side of the gulch ; and the head-board at the grave bears the inscription: "S. C. SMITH, MURDERED July 16, 1860. 'Revenge is mine, saith the Lord and I will repay.' " The family of the deceased are stopping at the Toll Gate. A good deal of feeling exists in the gulch in regard to this affair ; many condemning those who killed Smith, and others regarding the act as justifiable. We do not know all the details of the tragedy, but a man who, under any provocation, would fire the contents of a shot gun at his wife, while two of his children were beside her, and his infant resting on her bosom, was certainly an outlaw from human society and deserved the tragic fate which befel Smith.
---Western Mountaineer, Golden, CO, August 2, 1860
From California Gulch.
The Last of the Smith Tragedy.---
The remains of Smith, from Schuyler Co., Ill., whose death was announced in our last issue, have been interred twelve miles this side of the gulch ; and the head-board at the grave bears the inscription: "S. C. SMITH, MURDERED July 16, 1860. 'Revenge is mine, saith the Lord and I will repay.' " The family of the deceased are stopping at the Toll Gate. A good deal of feeling exists in the gulch in regard to this affair ; many condemning those who killed Smith, and others regarding the act as justifiable. We do not know all the details of the tragedy, but a man who, under any provocation, would fire the contents of a shot gun at his wife, while two of his children were beside her, and his infant resting on her bosom, was certainly an outlaw from human society and deserved the tragic fate which befel Smith.
---Western Mountaineer, Golden, CO, August 2, 1860

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  • Added: 30 May 2019
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2685726