Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-04-21
Lynch Law id california.

A California correspondent Of the Pitts.
burgh Post rrisipg from Stockton under
the date Of March Isl, gives the following
particulars ofa case of Lynching which
occurred in Sacramento City on the 9th
Of February. We have more detailed
account ofihe whole affair in ,hs Sacra-
MEMO Transerip. Of February 2s.h, bu. j.
quite TOO long for our columns:
Dear Sr-As predicted 10 my last,
Judge Lynch has assumed the supremacy
here. The people, wearied with the con.
tinued svasions Of justise BY. criminals and
courts, have themselves taken the RESPONSE
bility. San Francisco, Stockton and Sac
ramento, these few days past, have been in
continual whirl Of excitement conseouent
on the lynching # criminals in each Of
those places, the last aud most tragieal Of
which occurred in Sacramento. L ssza
Agambler and q miner were quarreline,
when citizen who was passing at ths
time, seeing number Of gamblers assisting
their comrade, asked for fair play; the gam
bier who had commenced The quarrel turn
ed to him and asked him ~What the ID
he had to say and Immediately drew a
revolver and shot him through the head -
The murderer was arrested at once, and
lodged in Jail; the wounded man was car
ried to q house and physician sent for,
who declared be could not survive, This
occurred at2 o'clock, P. M. The crowd
which had assembled proceeded to the sta
tioa house where the prisoner was confined,
! their countenances denoting something des-
psrate. They were there addressed BY
citizens Of the highest respectability, on
the continued outrages which had taken
place for some time back. They then pro-
ceeded to the Orleans House, where they
appointed a jury Of the frat citizens of the
place, gave the prisoner counsel, and pro-
ceeded to . trial of some four hours in length
the crowd outside impatiently crying for a
decision. a8.n .a. nj. -
A committee at last reported the pro-
eeedings Of the jury to the people. which
was to the effect that the prisoner (an Eng
lishman, named Rowe, deliberately and
unprovokedly shot Chas. Myers formerly
resident of Columbus, Ohio,) through the
head. The decision was received with a
shout, and the mass of the people, now
numbering some four thousand, proceeded
to the prison where be was confined and
guarded by the City Marshal and the Sher-
if and possee, both of whom addressed the
crowd, alternately imploring and threaten
ing, but to NO effset-the doors of the prison
were broken in and the prisoner taken cut.
1t was now 8 o'clock, and the nigh. dark
He was taken to an oak tree, in the heart
Of the city. where scaffold was erected;
and clergyman granted to him. A hand.
kerchisf was tied over his eyes, the moose
placed round his neck, and three men
drew him upj he remained suspended some
twenty minutes, whsn he was taken down,
declared dead, and given to his friends. >,
This state Of society is 10 be deplored. -
Lynch law is the last alternative and bad
precedent, but fated necessity makes i,
law. Time after time men have been
robbed and murdered in open day., and in
the midst Of our lhoropshfares, and nothing
but the rigid measures which =hnye .bsen
taken can save US from the revolver and
bowie knife. ..-... ~,