Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 64 | Killed Two Men, Californian is Granted Pardon

KILLED TWO MEN I CALIFORNIAN IS GRANTED PARDON SACRAMENTO SACRA Cal Cat May ra 25 25 John McDonald of oC SIskIyou count county serving a year ten-year sentence for second second sec- sec ond degree debree murder and and twenty one years cars for tor manslaughter the sentences sentences sentences sen sen- running concurrently has been pardoned Ho lIe had been out on parole for some time McDonald opened a saloon in a lumber lumler town Rivalry developed between between be be- be tween two lumber camps and it spread to t tic the respective saloons in inthe inthe inthe the camps c McDonald was driving a a. man in his wagon one day a in th t hope of getting hi him n a a. job The laborer Insisted In stopping f at the rival rhal saloon for tor a drink and when McDonald got sot inside a lot Jot of ot intoxicated lumberjacks lumberjack rt started d a row as the they looked upon him as an m enemy A couple of them started d to drive his wagon wason away and McDonald shot one of or them Threats of or lynching followed ed and McDonald recovering his vehicle started slatted so 50 he says sas to give up to the sheri sheriff when a big lumberjack lumberjack lumber lumber- jack jumped into his wa wagon on and started to pull pun him out Thinking he was to be lynched he shot the fel fel- low He was convicted of ot both killings In January 1903