Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
TAKEN FROM
DEPUTIES IN
COUNTY JAIL
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door but the crowd pushed its way
into the jail and demanded the
keys to the section where the pris-
onerS were kept.
| When Lange refused. he was
! bound. taken out and placed in one
Of the 25 automobiles standing in
/ the highway The machine was
| driven to a place about Is miles
from Yreka. where Lange. divested
Of his shoes and socks, was turned
| loose on a gravel road.
Meanwhile the lynchers found
themselves locked out of the Jail
when a door closed and a spring
latch snapped shut. They smash
ed down the door Henry F. Mar
tin nightman in a Yreka cafe,
passed the Jail at this time and
was seized.
The inmates shouted and scream
ed in fear Of being mistaken for
johnson.
I'm not the man." each cried.
The Staying suspect was identified
and was dragged barefooted from
the jail
Victim Keeps Silent
Martin, who was freed when the
party turned to their automobile,
said the victim never said a word
in protest or fear. locking his lips
in grim silence and prepared him
self for fate he knew was newt
able.
The party drove three miles
south on the Scots Valley high
way, where they selected a tall pine
tree. Johnson's feet were tied and
a rope was dropped around his
neck.
The rope was thrown over a limb
and he was jerked upwards sudden
". An end of the rope was tied to
a fence railing and the lynching
victim, strangled by the moose, was
left hanging.
The mob scattered as quietly and
as quickly as it had appeared, driv-
ing southwark toward Dunsmuir.
Under Sheriff Chambers direc-
ton the body was cut down and
was brought to a Yreka morgue to
await word from relatives as to its
disposition. He formerly resided in
Reno, San Jose, Calf, and Klam-
ath Falls. Ore.
1t was learned later that Deputy
Sheriff Edward Mathews. also sta
toned at the Jail 81 night, had been
called to Mt. Shasta City on an
other mission. The call was not a
ruse. Chandler said.
Chandler was represented as de-
string to learn full details of the
lynching from Lange and from
prison inmates before deciding what
action to take concerning the sum-
mary justice. an expression of the
law which prevailed in the frontier
days of the state.
Admits Crime
Daw was slain and George Ma
lone, Siskiyou highway patrolman
was wounded slightly last Monday
by two men whom they stopped or
the highway at Dunsmuir to ques-
ton about q holdup Of a resort at
Castella.
Posses later found Johnson walk
ing in the brush along the same
highway. Brought to Dunsmuir, he
confessed having been one of the
men who shot the policeman and
named Robert Half Ear Miller as
his companion.
Threats of mob violence forced
Johnson's hasty removal to the
stronger county jail at Yreka from
Dunsmuir The talk. however. had
subsided up to the point of DAVIS
funeral yesterday.
Miller has not been captured. He
was being sought yesterday in the
mountains around Dunsmuir and
also at San Jose, several hundred
miles south. where he formerly
lived. johnson told authorities he
and Miller had come from a federal
transient camp at klamath Falls,
Ore. to CasteIla where they held up
a roadhouse and stole an automo-
mile. Daw and Malone pursued
them.
! Malone said that the suspects had
shot without warning when the Of
ficers stopped their machine to
question them. Daw dropped with
three bullets in his body. Another
bullet nicked Malone's ear. A gun
found on johnson was identified
through ballisticS tests as the Wea-
pOn used in the Staying.
johnson confessed to robberies in
Hollister and other central Califor-
MIA towns. Miller also had an eX-
Itensiye police record.