24132 California Rancher who discovered a Murder

One author asks: Why did no one (Elliott Jewell or the workers) think to look for Sarah Wickersham in her bedroom just off the parlor on Thursday, January 21st? We are told that they searched the property and outbuildings, but not all the rooms of this very small house? Sarah was first discovered in her bedroom by the search party on Friday, January 22. This one odd failure to look in Sarah’s bedroom casts suspicion on neighbor John Elliott Jewell (1852–1932), allegedly the first one to discover Wickersham’s corpse on Thursday. Little is known about Jewell, the son of wealthy pioneer Petaluma dairyman, Isaac Jewell. He married (Clara B.) and had a son (John Elliott Jewell II) in 1897.