A Chinaman Lynched

Newspaper:Marysville Daily Appeal
Publication Date:   Wed, Apr 15, 1874
Published at:Marysville, California
Page Number:3
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CORINNE (Utah), April 14th.

The Chinaman arrested on Monday, the 6th instant, upon suspicion of having been implicated in the murder of Bornsheim, which occurred on the 5th, was yesterday proven beyond all doubt to have committed the deed unaided and alone. At 2 o’clock this afternoon, while the officers were endeavoring to take the prisoner to Brigham City for safe keeping, the citizens en masse took him from them, marched him down to the railroad bridge, one mile east of town, and hung him from the trestle work. Thayer, the detective and Chinese interpreter, called from Denver especially to work the case up, brought about this end with great credit to himself and the community. Public wrath is appeased, quietness prevails again and the people are happy to feel they have rid the city of a murderer who has killed two or three men before, and is now known to have been one of the worst Chinese characters in the country.

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“A Chinaman Lynched.” Marysville Daily Appeal (Marysville, CA), Apr 15 1874, 3. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MDA18740415.2.16