The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-08
HANGED BY A MOB.
Swift Justice Melted Out to the
San BernardinO Murderer.
TAKEN FROM THE JAIL AND SWUNG
FROM A BRIDGE.
Two Capitalists Form a Combination
for the Purpose of Controlling the
Lumber Output of Mendocino and
Humboldt Counties-Grave-Rob
in the VacaviIle Cemetery.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

SAN BERNARDINO, April THE hor-
ribie butchery which occurred in this
city yesterday, resulting in the death of
old man Goldkoffer and the woman
Francisco Flores at the hands of the
assassin Jesus Fuen, eliminated last
night in lynching bee.
tuen and the woman Flores were liv-
ing together as man and wife. Fuen
| chased Francisco with knife to
the house OF old man Goldkoffer, a Ger
man, 10 years of age, who attempted to
protect her life, but was himself stabbed
to death. The assassin then killed Fran
clsca IN the same way. Several hundred
people congregated at the scene in few
minutes, and were prevented from lynch
ing Fuen by the doctors giving it out
that Fuen's wound on the head would re-
suit in death in few minutes.
Last night it became known that Fuen
was practically unframed and many
friends of Goldkoffer, who was an old
and respected citizen, became Infatuated.
About 1890 o'clock this morning about
fifty men marched up the street in a
body to the Jail on Court street. They
called on Jailer Brown to produce Fuen,
| but receiving no response, sledge-ham-
mers were used to force the Jail doors.
AT this juncture Jailer Brown appeared
at the window of the upper story and re-
monstrated with the crowd, but to no
effect. He then fired several shots in the
ali to call the assistance Of the other Off
GERS, who, upon putting in appearance
| could do nothing with the crowd, which
had swelled to several hundred
The sledge-hammers making no i'm
preston on the iron doors, an eye beam,
weighing several hundred pounds, was
brought into use as a battering-ram by
the crowd. Even this ponderous weapon
! failed to Stave in the door. 1t was then
directed against the iron grating of the
window, which yielded at once and en-
trance TO the Jail was obtained
Inside of the Jail several doors had to
be battered down before the prisoner
could be reached. For an hour and a
half the work went steadily on until the
prisoner was at last reached and cut out
of his steel cage by chisels, used in the
hands of experts.
At last the prisoner was produced, and
an immense crowd, which was continu-
ally swelling directed by the leaders,
marched him off through the streets to
the railroad bridge near First street.
The murderer carelessly asked for
cigarettes, which were given him, and
he pulled along on the march to death as
calmly as though going to his wedding.
Before being strung up, he was given
an opportunity to say his last words.
Through an interpreter, he said he was
brought to his present condition by
whisky; that his wife had wronged him
and that he had killed her, and he was
ready to die.
When asked what Goldkoffer had done
to him, he said that he had shot at him.
| The end of the rope was then made fast
to the bridge and the murderer swung off
into enternity at 2:30 o'clock.
The crowd was orderly throughout the
whole transaction. Some one fired shot
at the body as it swung from the bridge.
! but the leaders of the mob at once put a
stop to it by declaring that whoever re-
| peated it would himself be shot.
1t is stated this morning that the lead
ers of the mob are known and that an in
vestigation will be had; but, up to the
present time, no move in that direction
has been made.
CoRONER'S INQUEST,
| SAN BERNARDINo, April THE Coro-
ner's inquest held on the body of Jesus
Fuen, the murderer who was lynched by
a mob early this morning, found that he
came to his death by hanging at the
hands OF parties unknown to the Jury.
No attempt was made to discover who the
leaders of the mob were, and it is even
rumored that two or three of the Coro-
ner's jury were participants in the hang
ing bee. The talk of arrests is dying
out, though few Of the mob wore masks
and are well known to hundred specta-
| tors.