Am not related. May be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but additional old newspaper extracts have been posted by transcriber.
Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoc
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>TUESDAY, 8 SEPT 1863<<

KILLED - Wm. LAWLESS, of Visalia, was found on the 2d inst., upon the road leading to Tule, dead, with his neck dislocated and his skull fractured. It is supposed that he was thrown from and kicked by his horse.