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Juanita - The only woman lynched in the Gold Rush days (PH 20-9)(1967) (36 pages)
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10.
Accordingto Barton, Thayer was thrown from the
stand and for several hundred feet his feet never
touched ground as he was beaten and pummeled by
the mob and finally deposited at the edge of the
crowd. David Barstow, another eye-witness to the
proceedings (original manuscript in the Bancroft
Library, Berkeley, California ), characterized the
crowd ofminers as “the hungriest, craziest, wildest mob standing around thatIlever saw anywhere.”
Mrs. Fremont Older claimed to have interviewed
the widow of Doctor Aiken for her book, Love Stovies of Old California. According to Mrs. Aiken,
the good doctor lied to try and avert the tragedy.
The historian Bancroft, in his Popular Tribunals,
wrote that Weller refused to even attend the trial
or to intervene on behalf of Josefa.
J.J. McClosky recalled that Josefa was buried behind the old theatre that he was managing at the
time. Barton’s recollection was that Josefa and
Cannon were buried side by side in the local graveyard. Later, in the 1870’s, the bodies were re-interred when the old graveyard plot was made available for mining. At this time, still according to
Barton, Josefa’s skull was removed and for some
years it was used as a part of the initiation ceremonies of a local secret society.
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