Homicides of Napa County. Pages 143-157

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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Killing of Charles R. Rice.—Rice was a blacksmith at the Redington Quicksilver Mine, and worked in a 
shop at Knoxville. On the day of the shooting, June 3, 1879, Jacob Fuquar came into the shop with a 
mule which he desired shod. After the work was done he refused to pay for it, whereupon Rice said 
that the mule should not leave the shop until the work was paid for. Fuquar then became abusive, and 
Rice drove him from the shop. He went to a house near by and procured a revolver, and going back to 
the shop, shot Rice through the heart.