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Show California Ve.ngeancb on a Murderer. If the murder of Miss Suau MoDuniel, at Cherokee Flat, Cal., by "Austrian George," alias "Portuguese Joe," because she would iot marry him, was horrible it, will be remembered he oanm up behind h'T us she was going away from a ball with her friends, at 3 o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, teizt-d her by the hand, pulled it back, and plunged a knife in her bosom, ripping it open down to the heart the vengeance of the excited neighbors was 6till more shocking. After a day or two's pursuit, he wa come up with, and attempting to flee, his pursuers shot him dead, il is body was then taken to his cabin, and the erowd assembled declared it should he burned; wheieupon, they tore the cabin down, made a luneral pyre of it, fastened fas-tened iho body standing in the center, poured petroleum over the whole, and then set fire to it. And so, with u shouting, rejoicing throng around, the ui ui dorer and his home were together reduced to ashes. Eye witnesses describe de-scribe the tcene of the burning ns I rightful in the extreme. II ud h' been captured alive his puniphmeiit would have been death by fire. Ex-. |