“I hung one Chinaman.”

“As soon as I was elected I resigned all of the offices that I had held at Superior for the past four years. I served one term as sheriff and then quit. During my term there was not much that happened that was exciting. I hung one Chinaman. He was as innocent of the crime that he was hung for as you are. The other d—d Chinamen swore his life away.

There was a preacher at the execution. He said that he supposed his prayer would not do the Chinaman much good, as he couldn’t understand it, but it might do some of the others good, and so I let him into the stockade in the courtyard, where the hanging took place, and he made as good a prayer as he would for a white man. I hated to hang that Chinaman. He was not guilty, but I couldn’t prove it, so I had to go on with the execution.”