QUEER JUSTICE.

Evening Star, Issue 3777, 2 April 1875, Page 3

QUEER JUSTICE.

Justice in California (says the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’) is so swift that it sometimes overtakes culprits even before the actual commission of the crimes which entitle them to that designation. The Sam Francisco * Call’ reports the severe punishment inflicted, on certain Chinamen for offences they are likely to commit. It was reported the other day that some ore had been stolen from a gold mine in Sierra Countryiin the State. A number of Chinamen who lived in the neighborhood were suspected of the erime “on general principles. The miners therefore resolved that justice should take its course, and accordingly set fire te the huts of the Chinamen. The huts were all ablaze, the Chineah were skipping around, and the fun Was at its height, when a miner came rtt * B i a g up to the scene of conflagration, out of breath, to announce that the real thieves had been discovered and captured. Some of the mob were at this juncture weak enough to suggest the exttinction of the fire; but a prominent miner named Joe Warren argued, with great force, that if the Chinese had not stolen the ore there was no doubt that they would steal something in time, and that the fire had therefore better go on. This view of the case was accepted By the majority, so “the exercises were continued,” and the Chinese burned out completely.