Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Napa County California
December 9, 1876
The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point Wisconsin
In Napa County, Cal., one John Webster has received the bounty for the scalps of 4,000 squirrels. An unfortunate Justice of the Peace had to count them all before issuing the certificate.
January 25, 1898
The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln Nebraska
Killed His Own Brother
California Murderer Makes A Full Confession
Napa, Cal., Jan. 24-In the presence of the sheriff and
district attorney of Napa county, and of six other witnesses, George Willard
Clark has confessed that he was the murderer of his brother, W.A. Clark, at St.
Helena, on last Thursday.
Mrs. Levina Clark was married to William A. Clark more than
twenty years ago in Clay county Illinois. She is forty-six years old and the
mother of seven children. George W. Clark, the murderer, became intimate with
her thirteen or fourteen years ago. Their relations continued while the husband
was in California making a home for her, and during that time a child was born,
of which George Clark was the father.
After coming to California to live at and near St. Helena,
Napa county, Mrs. Clark professed Christianity and attempted to break off
relations with her brother in law, but he persisted his attentions. At times he
asked her if she would live with him in case of her husband's death. Last month
he put strychnine in his brother's coffee on two occasions, but the brother
detected the poison and had the coffee analyzed by the druggist. then, on
Thursday morning, George Clark lay in wait for his brother and shot him while he
was preparing breakfast in the kitchen of his St. Helena home.
The murderer was brought to Napa. On Saturday Mrs. Clark told
at the inquest the story of her relations with her brother in law, but George
Clark continued to declare his innocence of the murder, until he was finally
induced to make a full confession, the details of which do not differ materially
from the facts of the crime already reported and confirmed by the statements of
Mrs. Clark.
©2008 Shauna Williams, unless otherwise noted