Chinaman Lynched
| Newspaper: | The Topeka State Journal |
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| Publication Date: | Wed, Jul 10, 1901 |
| Published at: | Los Angeles, California |
| Page Number: | 1 |
Article Transcript
Attacks a California Woman With a Butcher Knife.
Bakersfield, Cal., July 10.—Young Fook, a Chinese cook employed at a boarding house at Mount Breckenridge lumber mill, 35 miles east of Bakersfield in the mountains, was lynched by lumbermen.
The Chinaman attacked Mrs. Kenney, wife of the foreman of the mill, with a butcher knife, inflicting a serious wound on her face. He also struck Mrs. Kenney’s little daughter but the injury is slight. The screams of the woman brought the lumbermen to the scene. Mr. Kenney was the first to reach the house. He was attacked by the Chinaman and sustained a severe cut on the wrist. The lumbermen knocked the Chinaman down, placed a rope around his neck and hanged him to a tree. It is believed that the Chinaman was insane.