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Show Old Murder and Treasure Found. The Calaveras Cltronule of June 25th gives this account of treasure found, in connection with a murder perpetrated some years ego : On Friday, the 17th inst., as a company com-pany of Italian miners were sluicing in Wet gulch, near WhUky slide, they washed out of the bank a tin bos containing con-taining 1,572 in "individual" gold coin. I here was a 50 "'slug" among tue rest. The lucky finders of the treasure were at Work on the old Hamilton ranch, close to the site where a Frenchman called ''Jerry" kept a store in early days. As long ago : s 1S52 "Jerry'' was murdered in his stoie, and it was supposed at the time that his a.-v-assins secured the money he was known to possess, and made good their escape. Since the discovery of tie treasure by the Italians, however, the most reasonable conjee mre is ti at he buried the money, and that those who imbrued their hands in his blood obtained nothing but guilty consciences to compensate theiu for their ciime. The box that contained the money was nearly eaieu up by rust, but the coin had been undisturb- ea since uepositeu in tue oosoui 01 mother earth tor sale keeping. The money, we believe, was coined by Motlatt it Co., of San Francisco. Thus, after a lapse of eighteen years, by one of those queer, inexplicable 'treaks of wayward tonune, is peaceably peace-ably unearthed an object to possess which human blood has been shed, and another link added to the chain that binds our recollection to the dark and bloody deeds of early days in California. |