Marin County Deaths

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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KILLING OF ________ McLAUGHLIN
	January 24, 1863, McLaughlin was setting ten-pins in the bowling 
alley of Parsons for the amusement of a boy who was rolling the ball, when 
Parsons entered and told the boy to stop rolling.  McLaughlin asked the boy 
why he had stopped, and at the same time took a ball in his hand and was 
in the act of rolling it, when Parsons struck him and knocked him down.  
When McLaughlin got up, some harsh words passed, after which Parsons 
entered a room behind the bar, when McLaughlin charged him with going after a 
knife.  On the return of Parsons, McLaughlin struck him with a pen-knife, 
cutting him over the eye, when Parsons picked up a hatchet.  McLaughlin ran, 
Parsons in pursuit.  About thirty yards from the house McLaughlin fell into a 
ditch, and was in the act of getting up, when Parsons, who had by this time 
overtaken him, struck him two blows with the hatchet, from the effects of which 
he died.

History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880