EXAMINER'S ERRORS. In an Article Concerning the Hanging of a Mexican Woman. - Chico Weekly Enterprise, Volume XXIX, Number 1, 4 June 1897
EXAMINER'S ERRORS.
In an Article Concerning the Hanging of a Mexican Woman.
J. M. Braden calls our attention to me of the mistakes given, as he was present at the time and knew the circumstances. The father of the writer was also present and did all in his power save the woman. The history of Serra county gives the true facts.
The Examiner states she was a Mexican woman, when in truth she was a native of Chili. The Examiner states she had scores of lovers when in truth she was the wife of a gambler and was a respectable woman. She was in her own house when the man she killed broke into her room and she did just right in killing him.
The Examiner says it was in June when history asserts it was on the Fourth of July. The Examiner says the trap fell; there was no trap, but she was placed upon a timber which swung out over the stream.
That paper says Cline, the hangman, placed the noose around her neck; history records that she placed the noose there herself when the rope was handed to her. The Examiner says a black cap was used. The full published accounts of the execution state that a white handkerchief was placed over her face.
The woman was hanged by a drunken mob, frenzied from a day's intoxication, or she would never have been hanged at all.
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