LYNCHING AT THE PALMER DIGGINGS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 148, 24 November 1874, Page 3

LYNCHING AT THE PALMER DIGGINGS.

Judge Lynch has put in an appearance on the Palmer. A correspondent of the Courier says that robberies of gold and other crimes punishable by law are matters of daily and nightly occurrence on the diggings, but not one man in a hundred would go to the expense, trouble, and loss of time involved in a prosecution, let the robbery be what it might, or whatever the nature of the crime. There has been one case where the services of Judge Lynch were called into requisition. This was at Stony Creek, where a man was robbed of 12oz in one of those detestable shanties that crop out everywhere; and suspicion falling on a fellow "who was loafing about, there was a roll-up of diggers, and the supposed thief taken into custody. The evidence against him was held to be sufficient, and a rope having been passed round his neck in true Calcraft style, he was about to be strung up, when he disgorged three ounces,Jand promised to make up the rest, at the same time protesting his innocence. The poor devil was so terrified by the fearful peril from which he had escaped, that during the whole of that night ho kept roaring like a mad bull. There are no police within 25 miles of the place.