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One of the most brutal murders we were ever called upon to chronicle, says the Sacramento Bee of the 19th, was committed yesterday afternoon at Cook’s Bar, in this county, some twenty-five miles from Sacramento, by a Chinaman.

It appears that at two o’clock yesterday afternoon, a Chinaman entered the store of Mrs. Sarah Neal, at Cook’s Bar, while she was the only occupant, and, it is supposed, without uttering a sound, made an assault upon her and stabbed her three times in the throat, severing the jugular vein, twice in the breast, twice in the back, and once in the abdomen, killing her almost instantly.

A man who was employed in the store left it for a minute to go for water, and, as he went out, saw a Chinaman go in. After proceeding a short distance, he heard a woman scream, and, retracing his steps, met the Chinaman coming out the door. He seized him, and at the same moment saw Mrs. Neal fall a corpse within a few feet of him.

The scoundrel was covered with blood, and had the deadly weapon in his hand, which dispelled at once all doubt as to his being the murderer. The man at once turned him over to the crowd, who had gathered around the door, and upon taking up the body of Mrs. Neal, found that she was dead.

All this, be it remembered, occurred in a populous town at mid day. The villain was taken by the people of the Bar, hastily tried, and in a few hours was hanging to a tree, where our informant saw him swinging to and fro at 7 o’clock to-day, and where the people of that vicinity will let him swing until removed by the coroner.