Marin County Deaths

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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KILLING OF BLASS TALAMONTAS
            On May 2, 1879, Blass Talamontas was 
killed near Marshall, on Tomales bay, by Joe Luchonovich under the following 
circumstances:  Blass and two men, returning from a ball at Marshall, stopped at 
the house where lived Joe and Big Mary.  Some drinking was indulged in, when 
Blass became quarrelsome, and was requested by Joe to leave, as he did not 
desire to have any trouble.  Blass left about noon, and went to his own house, 
about two hundred feet distant, but returned immediately.  Joe seeing him 
coming, shut the front door where Blass tried to get admittance, saying at the 
same time, �I will kill you.�  Not being able to gain admittance there, he went 
to the back door, and seizing the ax, which was lying close by, knocked in the 
upper panel of the door.  Joe seized his gun which was standing close by, Blass 
then threw the ax through the hole in the door, again saying �I will kill you,� 
and Joe fired shooting him in the breast.  On Luchonovich being examined, the 
Justice of the Peace decided it to be justifiable homicide.

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