Lynching at Diamondville

We get the following particulars from the Butte Record:

“On the night of Friday, June 5th, the sluice boxes of Mr. Timothy O'Mera’s claim at Diamondville, were robbed of some $200.

To detect the thief if possible, a watch was set during the following nights, and on last Friday night at a late hour, the man on watch discovered a Chinaman in the act of cleaning out the sluices, and under cover of the night advanced with his shot gun and fired at John, shooting him in various parts of his legs and body.

John ran a piece but soon fell and was captured.

The miners hung him once or twice to get a confession out of him as to the whereabouts of the $200, and he finally agreed to pay over that amount, without confessing that he took it, provided they would go over with him to a Chinese store hard by.

They went but the Chinese storekeeper would not let him come in.

Cries were raised of ‘hang him, hang him,’ but, thinking he had been punished enough they let him go.”