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DYE, Troy and ANDERSON, Edward
Dyes ‘a 36-year-old white man, was a prosperous saloon keeper and for-=-
mer Sunday School teacher in Sacramento, Calif., when he was appointe
Public Administrator for Sacramento Co. in 1877, The primary function
of this lucrative position was to administer the AERSERE estates of
deceased persons who had no living relatives or heirs in the State
and Dye promptly made a list of 55 wealthy citizens and marked them
for death. He put his plan into effect in 1878 when he hired Ander~
Son, @ 39-year-old Swede, and 25-year-old Tom Lawtonyx, two habitues
of his saloon, to murder Aaron M, Tullis, an aged and wealthy bachelor
who lived en an island alone except for a Chinese houseboy. Late on
the afternoon of Aug. 1, 1878, Anderson and Lawton rowed to the island
in a boat that they had built at Dye's house and attempted to bludgeon
Tullis to death in his orchard with a Sandbag, The bag burst and they
thez shot him twice, The houseboy discovered the body the next morn-
ing and Anderson was arrested several days later when the lumber used
in making the row boat was traced to him, He confessed the entire
plot and Dye was also taken into custody but Lawton had left Sacramen-
to and was never captured, Dye and Anderson were both convicted of
the murder and sentenced to die and on May 29, 1879, they were hanged
in Sacramento, |
DYE, Troy and ANDERSON, Edward
Dye, ‘& 36-year-old white man, was a prosperous saloon keeper and for-
mer Sunday School teacher in Sacramento, Calif., when he was appointe
Public Administrator for Sacramento Co. in 1877. The primary functio:
of this luerative position was to administer the HEEBHKE estates of
deceased persons who had no living relatives or heirs in the State
and Dye promptly made a list of 55 wealthy citizens and marked them
for death, He put his plan into effect in 1878 when he hired Ander=
son, a 39-year-old Swede, and 25-year-old Tom Lawtonyx, two habitues
of his saloon, to murder Aaron M, Tullis » 8n aged and wealthy bachelor|
who lived en an island alone except for a Chinese houseboy. Late on
the afternoon of Aug. 1, 1878, Anderson and Lawton rowed to the island|
in a boat that they had built at Dye's house and attempted to bludgeon|
Tullis to death in his orchard with a Sandbag, The bag burst and they
thegz shot him twice, The houseboy discovered the body the next morn-
ing and Anderson was arrested several days later when the lumber used
in making the row boat was traced to him. He confessed the entire
plot and Dye was also taken into custody but Lawton had left Sacramen-
to and was never captured, Dye and Anderson were both convicted of
the murder and sentenced to die and on May 29, 1879, they were hanged
in Sacramento.
DYE, Troy and ANDERSON, Edward
Dye, ‘a 36-year-old white man,
mer Sunday School teacher in
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