Pinos Altos Notes
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

Pinos Altos Notes The homicide last Friday afternoon in the Pinos Altos athletic club rooms startled the com- munity. The firing was rapid, and seconds only intervened between the four or five shots, which sent a young life into eternity. The victim, John Dodd, was a miner in the employ of the Moun- tain Key mine, and had been drinking to excess and was very boisterous and noisy in his deport- ment, and had Johnny Dodd’s partner who was the most sober of the two acted the part of a true friend Boxley would have taken Dodd to the mine. Instead of this all reports say that Boxley made it a point to add fuel to an already consuming flame, which lost Dodd his life. The circumstances of the shooting are viz : Dodd and Boxley were in the Pinos Altos ath- letic club rooms, and being armed, Constable Fisher “asked him (Dodd) to put his pistol be- hind the bar, and have his fun out.” This Dodd refused to do, and almost immediately opened on Fisher, firing two or three shots. Fisher re- turned the fire, one ball striking the butt of the pistol in Dodd’s hand, and another striking Dodd in the right side, ranging through the heart and killing him instantly. The coroner’s inquest held by Judge Lucas exonerated the officer.