The Shooting of Thaddeus Purdy

The Shooting of Thaddeus Purdy (HMTGO)

Location: Alleghany, CA 95910 Sierra County
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N 39° 33.619', W 120° 49.673'

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In the Fall of 1853 a miner known as "Muntz" knifed and fatally wounded "Baltimore Jack" over a game of cards in Forest City. Muntz was taken to Downieville and held upstairs in the Craycroft Building for want of a jail. The next day a Forest City mob armed with "great clubs, knives, and revolvers" and "yelling like demons" attempted to take and hang Muntz. A shot rang out and Thaddeus Purdy, Sierra County's first District Attorney fell with a bullet to his brain. He died on a table in the saloon. The victim of a friend "handling the hammer of his revolver when it slipped through his fingers". The astonished crowd "slunk away". Muntz was acquitted on the grounds of self defense.
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HM NumberHMTGO
Series This marker is part of the E Clampus Vitus series
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Year Placed2002
Placed ByMajor William Downie, Chapter No. 1849, E Clampus Vitus
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Thursday, September 25th, 2014 at 5:08am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 686603 N 4381211
Decimal Degrees39.56031667, -120.82788333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 33.619', W 120° 49.673'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 33' 37.14" N, 120° 49' 40.38" W
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Area Code(s)530
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 308-312 Main St, Alleghany CA 95910, US
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