He was a rancher
Died from a accidental gun shot
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Pasadena, July 4 – Orville Grant Hamilton, a well known gardener of the Sierra Madre neighborhood, was found dead by the roadside near that place at 8:15 o'clock this morning with a bullet hole in his breast.
Two young people from Sierra Madre, Patsy Johnson and Lena Monk, made the startling discovery of the dead body of Hamilton as they were on their way to the 8:30 o'clock Sierra Madre electric car to go to the beach for an outing. They reported the news to the authorities at Sierra Madre, who telephoned to Constables Austin and Newell of Pasadena. A complete search of the locality where the body was found was made by the constables, but no clew to the perpetrator of the crime or to the accident, if accident it be, could be found.
Hamilton seems to have been universally liked with not an enemy in the community. He was employed on the Lyman Brothers' estate, which is managed by Lyman E. Mills, lieutenant governor of the state of New Jersey. Jacob Vosburg, while on the way to the postoffice at Sierra Madre at 7:30 o'clock this morning, passed where Hamilton was at work on the ranch and talked with him. Hamilton said he was going to do some irrigating and then go home, take a bath and celebrate the Fourth by relaxation from work the rest of the day. He told Vosburg to get his mail and leave it on his return from the office. When Vosburg returned the man was dead.
Hamilton has no family here. His relatives are in New York. Constables Howell and Austin had the body brought to the Ives & Warren undertaking parlors here, where it awaits instructions from his relatives in the east. Telegrams were sent to Cleveland, New York, where he is supposed to have a sister. Letters in his possession from a niece at that place made mention of an aunt, thought to be his sister.
Hamilton was about 57 years old and lived alone in a cottage on the Lyman brothers' ranch.
No evidence being found to support a murder or suicide theory, it is thought that a stray shot from some hunter's rifle may be responsible for the fatal wound. The ball had entered from the right side and passed through the right lung. An inquest over the body will be arranged as soon as Coroner Lanterman can be reached by phone. Up to 9 o'clock tonight no message had been received from the dead man's relatives.
Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, Friday Morning, July 5, 1907
Contributor: TLyons (48816921)
Died from a accidental gun shot
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Pasadena, July 4 – Orville Grant Hamilton, a well known gardener of the Sierra Madre neighborhood, was found dead by the roadside near that place at 8:15 o'clock this morning with a bullet hole in his breast.
Two young people from Sierra Madre, Patsy Johnson and Lena Monk, made the startling discovery of the dead body of Hamilton as they were on their way to the 8:30 o'clock Sierra Madre electric car to go to the beach for an outing. They reported the news to the authorities at Sierra Madre, who telephoned to Constables Austin and Newell of Pasadena. A complete search of the locality where the body was found was made by the constables, but no clew to the perpetrator of the crime or to the accident, if accident it be, could be found.
Hamilton seems to have been universally liked with not an enemy in the community. He was employed on the Lyman Brothers' estate, which is managed by Lyman E. Mills, lieutenant governor of the state of New Jersey. Jacob Vosburg, while on the way to the postoffice at Sierra Madre at 7:30 o'clock this morning, passed where Hamilton was at work on the ranch and talked with him. Hamilton said he was going to do some irrigating and then go home, take a bath and celebrate the Fourth by relaxation from work the rest of the day. He told Vosburg to get his mail and leave it on his return from the office. When Vosburg returned the man was dead.
Hamilton has no family here. His relatives are in New York. Constables Howell and Austin had the body brought to the Ives & Warren undertaking parlors here, where it awaits instructions from his relatives in the east. Telegrams were sent to Cleveland, New York, where he is supposed to have a sister. Letters in his possession from a niece at that place made mention of an aunt, thought to be his sister.
Hamilton was about 57 years old and lived alone in a cottage on the Lyman brothers' ranch.
No evidence being found to support a murder or suicide theory, it is thought that a stray shot from some hunter's rifle may be responsible for the fatal wound. The ball had entered from the right side and passed through the right lung. An inquest over the body will be arranged as soon as Coroner Lanterman can be reached by phone. Up to 9 o'clock tonight no message had been received from the dead man's relatives.
Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, Friday Morning, July 5, 1907
Contributor: TLyons (48816921)
He was a rancher
Died from a accidental gun shot
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Pasadena, July 4 – Orville Grant Hamilton, a well known gardener of the Sierra Madre neighborhood, was found dead by the roadside near that place at 8:15 o'clock this morning with a bullet hole in his breast.
Two young people from Sierra Madre, Patsy Johnson and Lena Monk, made the startling discovery of the dead body of Hamilton as they were on their way to the 8:30 o'clock Sierra Madre electric car to go to the beach for an outing. They reported the news to the authorities at Sierra Madre, who telephoned to Constables Austin and Newell of Pasadena. A complete search of the locality where the body was found was made by the constables, but no clew to the perpetrator of the crime or to the accident, if accident it be, could be found.
Hamilton seems to have been universally liked with not an enemy in the community. He was employed on the Lyman Brothers' estate, which is managed by Lyman E. Mills, lieutenant governor of the state of New Jersey. Jacob Vosburg, while on the way to the postoffice at Sierra Madre at 7:30 o'clock this morning, passed where Hamilton was at work on the ranch and talked with him. Hamilton said he was going to do some irrigating and then go home, take a bath and celebrate the Fourth by relaxation from work the rest of the day. He told Vosburg to get his mail and leave it on his return from the office. When Vosburg returned the man was dead.
Hamilton has no family here. His relatives are in New York. Constables Howell and Austin had the body brought to the Ives & Warren undertaking parlors here, where it awaits instructions from his relatives in the east. Telegrams were sent to Cleveland, New York, where he is supposed to have a sister. Letters in his possession from a niece at that place made mention of an aunt, thought to be his sister.
Hamilton was about 57 years old and lived alone in a cottage on the Lyman brothers' ranch.
No evidence being found to support a murder or suicide theory, it is thought that a stray shot from some hunter's rifle may be responsible for the fatal wound. The ball had entered from the right side and passed through the right lung. An inquest over the body will be arranged as soon as Coroner Lanterman can be reached by phone. Up to 9 o'clock tonight no message had been received from the dead man's relatives.
Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, Friday Morning, July 5, 1907
Contributor: TLyons (48816921)
Died from a accidental gun shot
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Pasadena, July 4 – Orville Grant Hamilton, a well known gardener of the Sierra Madre neighborhood, was found dead by the roadside near that place at 8:15 o'clock this morning with a bullet hole in his breast.
Two young people from Sierra Madre, Patsy Johnson and Lena Monk, made the startling discovery of the dead body of Hamilton as they were on their way to the 8:30 o'clock Sierra Madre electric car to go to the beach for an outing. They reported the news to the authorities at Sierra Madre, who telephoned to Constables Austin and Newell of Pasadena. A complete search of the locality where the body was found was made by the constables, but no clew to the perpetrator of the crime or to the accident, if accident it be, could be found.
Hamilton seems to have been universally liked with not an enemy in the community. He was employed on the Lyman Brothers' estate, which is managed by Lyman E. Mills, lieutenant governor of the state of New Jersey. Jacob Vosburg, while on the way to the postoffice at Sierra Madre at 7:30 o'clock this morning, passed where Hamilton was at work on the ranch and talked with him. Hamilton said he was going to do some irrigating and then go home, take a bath and celebrate the Fourth by relaxation from work the rest of the day. He told Vosburg to get his mail and leave it on his return from the office. When Vosburg returned the man was dead.
Hamilton has no family here. His relatives are in New York. Constables Howell and Austin had the body brought to the Ives & Warren undertaking parlors here, where it awaits instructions from his relatives in the east. Telegrams were sent to Cleveland, New York, where he is supposed to have a sister. Letters in his possession from a niece at that place made mention of an aunt, thought to be his sister.
Hamilton was about 57 years old and lived alone in a cottage on the Lyman brothers' ranch.
No evidence being found to support a murder or suicide theory, it is thought that a stray shot from some hunter's rifle may be responsible for the fatal wound. The ball had entered from the right side and passed through the right lung. An inquest over the body will be arranged as soon as Coroner Lanterman can be reached by phone. Up to 9 o'clock tonight no message had been received from the dead man's relatives.
Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, Friday Morning, July 5, 1907
Contributor: TLyons (48816921)
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