{"id":465,"date":"2011-04-08T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T20:28:27","slug":"killing-the-marshal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Killing the Marshal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Murray caught; on his way to San Diego. He gave up like a cuss. Terrible excitement. Parties have started out to catch and lynch him. Will keep them back all I can . . . <\/em>—<\/a><\/em>Thomas Weller, deputy constable, July 1889.<\/p>\n

A surprise telegram announcing the capture of an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153assassin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came as a huge relief to all San Diegans. Only days before the county had been stunned by the slaying of Charles Wilson, the popular City Marshal of Oceanside. Now the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cold-blooded murderer from Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d–as the newspapers called him–was in the hands of a posse and on his way to a jail cell in downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n

The story of Killing the Marshal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n