Kern County Obituaries

Sam Willie

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 1 Feb 1951

Son Arrested as Patricide Suspect
Returning to the cabin in which they lived on a Piute Indian reservation a mile 
north of Monolith, Bill Button, found the body of Sam Willie, another Indian, 
who had died from unknown causes. 
Upon being questioned Button said he had gone to the cabin at 2 p. m. and that 
the man was still alive at that time but was bleeding from the mouth. 
Requesting a drink of water, the aged Indian, 80, asked Button to pick up his 
mail in town. 
Button told officers that Willie had told him "his boy hit him." The boy is his 
son, Ray, who with his mother and wife were not at home when the body was 
discovered. Deputy Coroner Nolan Clay is having an autopsy made in an effort 
to determine the cause death.