Chinese Cook Lynched
| Newspaper: | Waterbury Democrat |
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| Publication Date: | Wed, Jul 10, 1901 |
| Published at: | Waterbury, Connecticut |
| Page Number: | 1 |
Article Transcript
The Chinaman Attacked the Wife of a Foreman.
Bakersfield, Calif., July 10.—Young Forke, a Chinese cook, employed at a boarding house at Mount Breckenridge lumber mill, 35 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 was 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.