New York Charley Lynched by Chinese

New York Charley, the Chinaman who was lynched by a party of his countrymen in Elko county, last Monday, for the murder of G. W. Mardis, was arrested at Mountain City on Sunday, says the Elko Independent, and brought back to the scene of the crime.

After the killing New York Charley took off his shoes and walked two miles barefooted, his object being to lead people to suppose that the crime had been committed by a barefooted Indian. When Charley’s shoes were stripped off, and revealed the fact that upon one of his feet there were six toes, exactly fitting and corresponding with the tracks leading away from the scene, he acknowledged his guilt. At the earnest solicitation of the leading Chinamen at the camp, New York Charley was delivered over to them, and as the funeral procession which conveyed to their last resting place the remains of poor old Mardis filed down the street, a similar cortege, bearing the body of his murderer, issued from Chinatown, and slowly moved toward the Chinese cemetery.