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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

WHOLESALE BUTCHERY OF CHINAMEN.

   On a bright Sunday morning in September, 1855, the bodies of five murdered
Chinamen were found about a mile from St. Louis, on Slate creek. Dr. Jump was
then practicing in St. Louis. A Chinaman who had escaped the fate of his
companions came to him on Sunday morning, and told him, in pigeon-English, that
Chinamen had been killed, and wanted him to go to the place, which he did. The
number of the party was six. They were mining in the neighborhood, and lived in
a cloth tent. In the night some men had jumped on the side of the tent, and
killed three of the poor Chinamen as they lay in their beds, stabbing them
through the canvas. Another had been murdered on the outside, while the body of
the fifth had been thrown in the mud at the bottom of a prospect hole. The sixth
one got away. The Chinamen had a hundred ounces of gold with them, which had
been taken. Three Spaniards, who were considered suspicious characters, were
arrested and taken before the citizens' court, but there being no evidence
tending to show their guilt, they proved an alibi, and got away.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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