A Chinese Malefactor Lynched at Corinne

Newspaper:The San Francisco Examiner
Publication Date:   Wed, Apr 15, 1874
Published at:San Francisco, California
Page Number:3
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CORINNE, April 14.—The Chinaman arrested on the 6th instant, upon suspicion of having been implicated in the murder of Bornstein, which occurred on the 5th, was yesterday proven beyond all doubt to have committed the deed unaided.

This afternoon, while the officers were endeavoring to take the prisoner to Brigham City for safe keeping, the citizens en masse took him from them, marched him down to the railroad bridge, one mile east of town, and hanged him from the trestle-work.

Thayer, a detective, called from Denver especially to work the case up, brought about this end, with great credit to himself and the community.

Public wrath is appeased, quietness prevails again, and the people are happy to feel that they have rid the city of a murderer who has killed two or three men before, and is now known to have been one of the worst Chinese characters in this country.

Citation

A Chinese Malefactor Lynched at Corinne. San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA), April 15 1874, 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-1884ut-chine/84187015/