Chinese Cook Lynched
| Newspaper: | Evening Star |
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| Publication Date: | Wed, Jul 10, 1901 |
| Published at: | Butte, Montana |
| Page Number: | 1 |
Article Transcript
He Had Assaulted Wife of Employer With a Knife.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal., July 10.—Yung Fooke, a Chinese cook employed at a boarding house at Mount Breckinridge lumber mill, thirty-five miles east of Bakersfield, in the mountains, has been 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 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.