April 24 Friday – Sam arrived in Virginia City at 5 AM [MTL 2: 211n1]. The day was clear and pleasant. Alfred R. Doten (1829-1903) met Sam at the courthouse and with other reporters at 11:30 AM they went to a hanging [Clark 994]. Sam was in one of the carriages that crowded around the gallows for one John Milleain (known also as Jean Millian), the convicted murderer of the infamous prostitute Julia Bulette. After the execution, Sam went to visit with his friends at the Enterprise office and work on his letters for the Eastern papers [Sanborn 393-4].