'Wn.nw onstuilj ply iDi l<-‘ar j n theL ■1° siihsij all even, e fillDsn: Pt si ?. he a., 'mentaiii, ■sity is Hege« phere. has in ent i Lewis a ; supiKD io has ewing iix ought fc , he said g man’ll eessaril has luij “ it was' e, said eh assnii lasses lid. 1 to it." iiksbm .•onnoisj di ‘king 1b ling ngnwi noretii Ctl Daniels ms fn irtford them Outlaw haunts execution site United Press International SAN DIEGO — Yankee Jim got around. They named a town for him in Northern California where he found gold. They hanged him in Southern California for trying to steal a schooner out of San Diego harbor. And some people say the world has not heard the last of Yankee Jim. Now he is said to haunt the spot where he died, tromping across the floor of a house built on his execution site, angry because the hangman did a sloppy job. What little historical informa tion is available about James Yankee Jim” Robinson indicates the man who roamed the foothills east of Sacramento during the Gold Rush is the same man who died at the business end of a noose in San Diego in 1852. Historical marker No. 65 stands in front of the Whaley House in San Diego’s Old Town. The house, built in the 1860s, was the home of an early California businessman, Thomas Whaley. Whether Whaley knew it or not, his home apparently was built on the spot where the town’s ows stood some 15 years be fore. A story in the San Diego Herald s Aug. 27, 1852, edition reported Yankee Jim had been caught trying to steal the Plutas, a large schooner anchored in San Diego Harbor. Yankee Jim was found guilty of attempted grand larceny and sen tenced to death — ship-stealing in a harbor town apparently was taken as seriously as horse theft elsewhere in Old West. In 1956 — 104 years later — the Whaley house was estab lished as a historical site and J une Reading was given the the job of restoring it. She had heard stories told bv the last resident of the home, Whaley’s youngest daughter, Corinne Lillian Whaley, who died in 1953. In her last years, Mrs. Whaley had refused to use the second floor “because there was something up there that bothered her. That’s all she would say.” It was three years later when Mrs. Reading heard “the unmis takable sound of footsteps across the floor.” When she looked in the room, it was empty. Mrs. Reading said she and others have heard the footsteps several times over the years. She said she believes it is Yankee Jim and she thinks he has cause for his restlessnes. She said he was pleading for mercy when the hangman kicked the wagon out from under his feet. But the rope was too short for Yankee Jim’s 6-2 frame and the fall failed to break his neck. It took him 45 minutes to choke to death. About 400 miles north — 18 miles northeast of Auburn in Placer County — Historical Marker No. 398 designates the town of Yankee Jim’s. Once said to he an important gold mining center, the community is now populated by a handful of resi dents who recently celebrated the installation of their first street light. According to an inscription on the marker, gold was discovered by Yankee Jim, “a reputed law less character,” in 1850 and the town came to he known by his name. He was careful to keep his rich mine a secret, according to the History of Placer County that was published in the late 1800s. At some point he disappeared from the region. In 1852 fire swept the town, destroying nearly half its build ings. It was the same year Yankee Jim was hanged in San Diego. 7 Doctor says alcoholics can’t drink socially a WTexas A&M University students Wlbegin making nominations today for Who’s Who Among Students in erican Colleges and Universi- ?es Fifty-six nominees will he sleeted. am ‘'•■Nominations will he accepted rough Sept. 8. Among other criteria, the lit.tiragominee must be at least a senior lith95credit hours and graduate no [ter than Aug. 31, 1979. or he must a graduate student with one mesterand no less than 12 credit irs. Veterinary medicine students eligible if they become seniors by [ebruary 1979. Nomination forms will be availa- in the Memorial Student Center, Housing and Commandant’s Oflices, Zachry Engineering Center, Sterl ing C. Evans Library, on the West Campus and at the offices of the dean of veterinary medicine and vice pres ident for student service^. Students may nominate them selves or be nominated by bth’er Stu dents, University staff members or campus organizations. AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823-8051 „ IJriitcd Press International CHICAGO — Former alcoholics simply cannot risk trying to be social drinkers even though a few have suc ceeded, says a physician who treats alcoholics. While some day we may be able to offer goals of controlled drinking to selected patients, at our present level of knowledge, we should con tinue to recommend abstinence as the treatment that offers the best chance of optimal functioning,” Brian R. Nagy of the Southern Tier Alcoholism Rehabilitation Service, Elmira, N.Y., wrote in an issue of the Journal of the American Medical As sociation. “Without question, AA has ‘saved’ more alcoholics than any other treatment, organization or’ institu tion,” Nagy wrote. The Rand Corp. in June 1976 is sued a report on alcholism that seemed to imply that alcoholics could return to social drinking, Nagy said. 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