Protected by Law
| Newspaper: | The Evening Mail |
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| Publication Date: | Fri, Aug 18, 1893 |
| Published at: | Stockton, California |
| Page Number: | 8 |
Article Transcript
FRESNO, Cal., August 18.—It was reported here this morning that a mob hanged a Chinaman at Kingsburg.
About 8 o’clock the Coroner left to hold an inquest.
Later investigation proved the story to be untrue. A Chinaman had been hung in effigy.
Sheriff Scott had deputies stationed at many of the vineyards last night to afford protection to property.
About midnight last night a band of about fifty men, in wagons, appeared at the Fancher Creek nursery, where a mixed crowd of Chinese and whites were at work budding trees and doing other work.
They routed the Chinese out of their beds and started to march them to town.
Mr. Roeding, the manager, telephoned the Sheriff concerning the affair, and a posse of deputies were soon on the way to Fancher Creek.
They met the Chinamen in charge of part of the raiders, and commanded the latter to desist, and, under protection of the deputies, the Chinese were marched back to the nursery.
It was the evident intention of the mob to raid the Chinese quarters at all the vineyards on the way back to town.
The attacks on the Chinese seem to be by men who do not care to work.