Posted By:	Vern Dander
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	Subject:	Death in CA 1864:G.W. SELBY, husband of unk FARLEY
	Post Date:	January 02, 2008 at 17:07:02
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Am not related.  May be of interest to someone who is.  I have no further info but additional old newspaper extracts may be found at URL:   www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php Vern D ///////////////////////////////// Transcribed by Dee Sardoc //////////////////////////////// Stockton Daily Independent Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA ***************************************** >>TUESDAY, 12 JULY 1864<< ARREST for MURDER - Our readers will remember something which appeared in this paper a few days since, copied from the Sacramento 'Union,' giving an account of the mysterious murder of G.W. SELBY, while asleep in bed by the side of his wife, on the night of the 4th July. On Friday last Mrs. SELBY and one of her brothers, C.J. FARLEY, of Sacramento, were arrested, charged with the murder in question. The principal reasons for these arrests are as follows: Officers who were present when witnesses were examined state that Mrs. SELBY stated that she believed that her brothers were instrumental in procuring the death of her husband, and that the murder originated from the difficulty about the horses. Her friends inform us that in this connection she used the term "brother," and not "brothers," and that she referred to the one now on the way to Reese River, and not the one in custody. We are also informed that CAMPBELL testified before the jury that he was present at a conversation which occurred on the 4th of July between SELBY and C.J. FARLEY, in which SELBY accused the absent brother and MANN of having taken the horses away, and FARLEY cautioned him to beware how he talked about his brother, as, although absent himself, he had friends remaining behind. Some of the reasons which led to the suspicion that Mrs. SELBY was an accessory to the murder are as follows: She professed, when CAMPBELL called to SELBY, to have not heard the pistol shot, but to believe her husband to be in a fit. Although she did not hear the shot, she stated that the pistol when fired was held so near her face that the powder burnt it. No marks of its being burnt could be seen by others. She represented that her husband's head was resting on her arm when he was shot, she on the edge of the bed. A pool of blood was found on the floor outside of the edge of the bed, which had evidently spurted from the wound, and yet the clothing worn by her, lying between her husband and the blood on the floor, was unmarked with blood. The position of the blood on the floor indicates that it fell from the wounded man while in a sitting position, and could not have been deposited as it was while his head was lying on the pillow. The bullet entered at the left eye and came out at the left side of the back part of the head, as though fired horizontally while sitting or raising in bed. These circumstances give rise to the suspicion that the relative position of husband and wife were not such when the shot was fired as was  represented by her. The news of the murder was first brought to the city by Moses MANN, and the report which gained credence in the early part of the day was to the effect that somebody spoke to SELBY, and that as he raised up in bed he was shot through the head. In conversations which ensued at the ranch after the murder had been committed, Mrs. SELBY stated that she believed her "brothers" or "brother" had been instrumental in the affair.