The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-08
FROM THE BRIDGE.
LynCl1ing of Fuen at San
Bernardino.
THE COUNTY JAIL STORMED.
AS Usual in Such Cases, the Jailer Let
the Mob Do Its Sweet
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THE COUNTY JAIL sTORMED.

SAN BERNARDINo, April THE horrible
butchery which occurred in this city yes
terday, resulting in the death of old man
Goldkoffer and the woman Francisco Flores
at the hands of the assassin, Jesus Fuen,
eliminated last evening in lynching bee.
Fuen and the woman Flores were living
together as man and wife. Fuen chased
Francisco with butcher-knife TO the house
of old man Goldkoffer, German, 70 years
of age. who attempted to protect her life,
hut was himself stabbed to death. The
assassin then killed Francisco in the same
way. Several hundred people congregated
at the scene in few minutes and were pre-
vented from lynching Fuen BY the doctors
giving it out that Fuen's wound on the head
would result 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 nfuriated.
About 1890 o'clock this morning some
fifty men marched up the street in body
to the jail on Court street.
They called on Jailer Brown to produce
Fuen, but receiving no response, sledge-
hammers 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, butte no effect.
He then fired several shots in tie air to
call the assistance of the other officers, who,
upon putting in an appearance, could do
nothing with the crowd. which had swelled
to several hundred.
The sledge-hammers making 20 impress
sion on the iron doors, an eye-beam, weigh
ing several hundred pounds. was brought
into use as a battering-ram by the crowd.
Eyan 70 lad fo
stave in the door.
1t was then directed against the iron graf
ing of the window, which yielded at once
and entrance 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 continually
swelling, directed by the leaders, marched
him off through the streets TO the railroad
bridge near First street.
The murderer carelessly asked for cigar
cites. which were given him, and he puifed
along on the march 10 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 ki lied her and was ready to die.
When asked what Gold koffer 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 eternity at $50 O'clock
The crowd was orderly through the whole
transaction.
Some one fred shot at the body as it
swung from the bridge, but the leaders of
the mob al once put stop to it by declaring
that whoever repeated it would himself be
shot.
1t was stated this morning that the leaders
Of.the mob are known and that an investi-
CATION will be had, but up to the present
time no move in that direction has been
made.
The Coroner's inquest held on the body
OF Fuen found that lie 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 Coroner's
jury were participants in the hanging bee.
The talk OF arrests is dying out though few
OF the mob wore masks and many are we'll
known to hundred spectators.