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Juanita - The only woman lynched in the Gold Rush days (PH 20-9)(1967) (36 pages)
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Page: of 36
ST
SACRAMENTO INTELLIGENCE.
3 ——o——
Gregory was first to furnish us with the Times and
the Union of yesterday from Sacramento. We have
also the Marysville Herald of the 8th.
In the Herald we find af account of a murder and
the hanging of the perpetrator, who was 8 woman!
_. We can hardly credit tho report, but we tranamit
the statoment entire, os it is mado through the
. . columus of the Herald:
A Woman Huna at Dowargvittr.—We aro informed by Deputy Bheriff Gray, that on Satarday aftornoon a Spanish woman was hung. for caer to the
heart a man by tho name of Cannan, killing him inatantly. Mr. Gray informa us that the decegsed, in company with some others, had the night previously ente
‘ the house of the woman and created ariot and disturbance, which so outraged hor, that whea bo presented
himself tho next morning to apologize for his behavior,
ho was mét at tho door by tho female, who had in bor
hand alarge bowie knile, which sho instantly drove into
his heart.
Sho was immediately arrosted, tried, sentenced, and
hang at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of tho samo day, Bho
did not exhibit the lost fear, walking up o small ladder
to the scaffold, and placing the rope round her neck with
her own hands, first gracefuliy removing two plaits of
raven black hair from her shoulders to make room for the
fatalcord. Some five or six hundred witnessed the exocation. Onbeiug askodif ahe had any thing to say, sho
replied, ‘Nothing; but 1 would do the sane again if I
was so provoked'’—and that she wished hor remains to
be decently taken caro of.
On Saturday evening a mau was slot in Marysillo, whilo handling a pistal carelessly, Mo was an
Dr. Cyrus D. Aiken — he risked his life to t is i i i ry and This is the story that d in the San Franci
save Josefa, From an old print in author's collection. DAILY ALTA CALIFORNIA on July 9, 1851. (en
tesy the California State Library.