People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Mackay’s Assailant Placed on Trial. [ARTICLE]

Mackay’s Assailant Placed on Trial.

San Francisco, May 11.—The case of W. C. Rippey, who shot John W. Mackay, the bonanza king, February 24 last, came up in the superior court before Judge Seawell Wednesday, and, contrary to expectation, instead of being continued a jury was impaneled. The line of questioning jurors plainly indicated that the defense would be insanity. Mackay was the first witness and narrated the circumstances of the shooting.