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The San Andreas Independent
San Andreas, Calaveras County, CA
Saturday, 26 May 1860
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DIED in the WOODS -- Dr. J.C. TEACH, a man aged about 55 years, was found dead near McNair's ranch, above Cave City, on the 17th inst. He had been employed in the woods cutting down a tree and was found about half-way between where he had been at work and the Table Mountain ditch, by Mr. McNAIR, at whose house deceased was stopping.
It is presumed he had gone for a drink and on his return toward the tree dropped down dead. Everything indicated that he died without a struggle, as his hat was still on his head and the soft ground was undisturbed save by his footsteps. This is one account. Another gentleman writes us that "the probable cause of his death was the drinking of poisonous and adulterated liquor, a bottle of which (partly consumed) he had at the time." What was left in the bottle has been sent to San Francisco to be analyzed. Deceased was a native of Pennsylvania, removed thence to Wheeling, Va., resided both in Ohio and Indiana, and came to this State in 1850.