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Walter Murray, originally Walter Thurtell, (1826 - 1875), soldier, printer, miner, lawyer, judge, newspaper publisher. A leader of the 1858 San Luis Obispo Vigilance Committee that hunted down the gang of bandits led by Pio Linares.

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• NARRATIVE OF A CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEER by WALTER MURRAY This manuscript was left unfinished, ending in the middle of a sentence, due to the death of Judge Walter Murray. The original is in the vaults of "The Society of California Pioneers," at 456 McAllister St., San Francisco. A typewritten copy is in the Museum of San Luis Obispo and also in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California. The transcription is the work of Dorothy Unangst Bilodeau, grand-daughter of Judge Murray. Murray's "Narrative" describes his enlistment and training as a volunteer in the Stevenson Regiment in August 1846. Walter described his companies voyage from New York around the Horn to San Francisco on 21 October 1847. It the continues with their voyage down to their occupation of Santa Barbara, then their voyage to garrison La Paz in Baja California, Mexico, and the account of his experiences there until it abruptly ends.

• Walter Murray letter of 28 May and 16 June, 1858 to his sister Anne