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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1880549, member: 22004&quot;]Specifically on the Dimmick conviction on the $30K in missing gold a couple of points I got from someone local to Auburn, CA, in gold country:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It is interesting that the man working with the us mints Walter dimmick who was accused of stealing the gold, was Dan t. Cole who built and ran an Inn in the Gold Country at mountain house near Downieville before working at the us mint in s.f.. Per documents he seemed anxious to incriminate Walter dimmick. Dimmick lived well past his parole and never went after the loot, whereas Dan t. Cole resigned from the us mint in 1907 from ill health and died in Jan of 1909 and if he was involved would not have had much chance to reclaim the gold &quot;if&quot; he was the robber.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In everything I read Dimmick denied that. The government agent made those claims. It seems as if Cole (protecting himself?) and the agent had some well thought out, tidy, and very arranged allegations against Dimmick. Framed? Right away they said Cole was a man of character, yet the government tried to make him responsible for the missing coins at one point. Dimmick out of Prison and unemployed and now an ex-con would of surely retrieved the coins when things died down within the next 20 years. Dimmick was potentially a convenient scapegoat.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Information is slow to trickle in, but if these coins are confirmed to be from the 1901 heist from the us mint in sf, than Walter Dimmick likely should be exonerated based on his not retrieving them in his later years of freedom from san quentin. Curious as to how close this couple lived to the location of where dan t. cole&#039;s Inn was located near Mountain House area of Hwy 49. Did anyone from the sf mint own property near where the coins were found? More sleuthing to do.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/node/252488?fb_comment_id=fbc_542896239142650_2994385_543808552384752#f342cc2cf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/node/252488?fb_comment_id=fbc_542896239142650_2994385_543808552384752#f342cc2cf" rel="nofollow">http://www.auburnjournal.com/node/252488?fb_comment_id=fbc_542896239142650_2994385_543808552384752#f342cc2cf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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