About one o'clock
State of California , -RCB- County of Placer . -RCB- ss . Said witness , being duly sworn , deposes as follows , to wit : My name is Dolly Adams , my age forty-seven years ; I am the wife of Frank G. Adams , of this township , and reside on the North Fork of the American River , below Cape Horn , on Thompson 's Flat . About one o'clock p. m. , May 14 , 1871 , I left the cabin to gather wood to cook dinner for my husband and the hands at work for him on the claim . The trees are mostly cut away from the bottom , and I had to climb some distance up the mountainside before I could get enough to kindle the fire . I had gone about five hundred yards from the cabin , and was searching for small sticks of fallen timber , when I thought I heard some one groan , as if in pain . I paused and listened ; the groaning became more distinct , and I started at once for the place whence the sounds proceeded ; about ten steps off I discovered the man whose remains lie there -LRB- pointing to the deceased -RRB- , sitting up , with his back against a big rock .