Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
PACIFIC COAST.
Lynching Of Assassins
Two Cutthroats Are Swung Up at
Santa Cruz
A GERMAN SUICIDES AT THE BAY
Friedlander's Settlement with His
Creditors.
NEWS FROM THE COMSTOCK
THE MORMONS on THE WAR
PATH.
NEWS FROM THE COMSTOCK

SANTA CRUZ, May 3.
The murderers of Deforrest, Fran
cisco Arias and Jose Chamalis We're
this morning found hanging from the
upper cross beams of the upper San
Lorenzo bridge dead. their feet and
hands being tightly bound with hay
ropes. Night before last the men were
seen in the orchard back of the Jail,
but as no attempt was made to lynch
the prisoners the people concluded the
law would be allowed to take its course.
at two O'Clock this morning the TAILOR
and Under Sheriff were surrounded by
a body of men who broke the jail-yard
door and obtained the Jail keyes. 1t is
surmised that the prisoners were put
in a wagon driven to the place of exc
%cution, the wagon being driven out
from under them after the halIers
around their necks had been fastened
to the bdam above. This morning
people gathered in large numbers, but
there was no excitement, and while
the regret was great that lynch law
should be resorted TO in this law-abid
ing community, a city in which no one
has been executeN without due pro
cess of law since 1872, there was a feel.
ing of security and general relief that
life was nc longer endangered by the
existence of two as desperate assassins
az ever stretched hemp. Chamalis was
executed within three hundred yards
of where he was born, and at the time
of his death was q years Of age. He
was sem to the State Prison from this
cou nty, for three years, for the rob-
b!ng Of the widow Rodriguez. He
broke Jail, was rearrested and served
~ htA ttnrn htC ftt,a n~r tx
March last. Last Monday night he
was brought to this place and confessed
all in the presence of four witnesses.
According to his statement Arias came
to the house where he vas and asked
him to accompany the speaker to the
circus; that he replied that they had
no money; that Arias said they would
get some; that they went 10 the locality
where DefOrrest was killed. and that
Deforrest coming along Arias fired at
him; that Deforrest not stopping Arias
fired again, Deforrest falling; that they
remained in the willows till all was
quiet, when they dragged the muir.
dered man across the road. His pock-
cts were robbed, they getting eight
dollars; that Arias kept five dollars
and fifty cents of the amount and that
they went to the circus. Arias was 3S
years of age and born rear Pescadero,
he still having relatives residing in this
county. For muir ering a sheep.
herder in San Luis Obispo he was sent
tn the State Prison for three years, his
brother having been sent there for life
for the same crime. For robbing the
house of p. Murphy at Watsonville he
was sent to the State Prison from this
county for two years. For a time he
denied the murder Of Deforrest, but in
being closely cross.examined he inci.
rectly admitted the crime. By request
of Chamalis they were put in different
cells. The verdict of the jury sum.
moned by the Coroner was that the
death Of the deceased was caused by
parties unknown o the jury.
VIRGINIA CITY, May 8.
The EUening Chronicle of to-day has
an important interview with Superin.
tendent Fair. He says positively that
Consolidated Virginia will pay two-
dollar dividend in May and will con-
tinue to pay regularly thereafter. The
price of milling has been reduced
from $l2 to 80 per ton and iuining
timbers from $23 to $ls per 1000 feet.
Bodwall, the labor broker, who was
run out of town yesterday, has not yet
been neafQ OF.
SAN Francisco, May 3
A German named Herman Hume
braun committed suicide yesterday
afternoon in his room over Funcke's
tannery, on Converse street, by cut
ting his throat with a razor. He drew
the razor across his throat while In the
room on the ground floor; then went
up stairs, where he finished the work
and fell to the floor, where he died.
1t is thought that loss of money
through the ~shrinkage OF mining stocks
caused him to take his life.
A final settlement was to day effect
ed between Isaac Friedlander and his
creditors. The Bank of California and
Nevada Bank accept securities held
for the amount which Mr.. Fried
lander owe them, and unsecured
creditors take rs per cont. cash and
give free release. This makes about