475 “Many were anxious”: Star 1871.10.27.
475 “The excitement”: Alta California 1871.10.25.
476 “It seemed to me”: Star 1871.10.27.
476 “Half the horror”: New York Times 1871.11.10.
476 “My memories”: “Massacre of Chinese,” Box 2, folder 6, Mesmer 1860–1914.
477 “It was a most heinous”: “Massacre of Chinese,” Box 2, folder 6, Mesmer 1860–1914.
477 “I saw them bring”: News 1871.11.04.
477 “bring me more”: Star 1871.10.27.
477 “Rope, more rope”: Dorney 1886:233.
478 “Hang them”: News 1871.11.04.
478 “Do you know”: Star 1871.10.26.
478 “You better dry up”: News 1871.10.26, 1872.02.18.
478 “They are killing”: Widney 1921a, Foy misidentified as “Fay.”
478 “Years of experience”: Widney 1921a.
479 “Damn it, we are all vigilantes”: Star 1871.10.28, News 1871.10.28.
479 “We saw two”: Star 1871.10.28.
479 “The cheap labor”: News 1871.11.04.
479 “I can get another”: Star 1871.10.27.
480 “Get out or I”: Widney 1921a.
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481 “Their countenances”: News 1871.10.28.
481 the dead: News 1871.10.26; Star 1871.10.26; Box 7–8, #1067–85, 1089, Criminal/Huntington; Zesch 2012:129–44, passim, provides the most reliable list of victims, but it includes few family names—Ah Cut, Ah Long, Ah Loo, Ah Waa, Ah Wing, Ah Won, Chang Wan, Chee Long Tong, Day Kee, Ho Hing, Jueng Burrow, Leong Quai, Lo Hey, Tong Won, Wah Sin Quai, Wan Foo, Wing Chee, Wong Chin.
482 “Murder”: Star 1871.10.25.
482 “The fame of our city”: News 1871.10.25.
482 “The Star was already”: Bell 1930:175.
482 “very careful in giving”: Alta California 1871.10.27.
483 “I am afraid”: News 1871.10.28.
483 “The revelations made”: News 1871.11.04.
483 “The Vigilance Committee”: Alta California 1871.10.26; Star 1871.10.26.
483 “The man referred to”: Star 1871.10.28.
483 “With the law”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1871.10.25.
484 “We have the sequel”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1871.10.27.
484 “The monstrosity”: News 1871.10.28.
484 “He evidently does”: Star 1871.10.27.
484 “The mob consisted of”: News 1871.10.29.
484 “Lawlessness has again”: Star 1871.11.09; Sacramento Daily Union 1871.11.10.
485 “chargeable with disorders”: Star 1871.12.09.
486 “deplorably inefficient”: Ibid.
486 “sending hot shot”: Star 1871.12.22.
486 “Chinese riot cases”: District Court, Minute Book No. 11, 1871.12.08, DCC.
487 “the balances of Justice”: News 1872.01.03.
487 “a complete farce”: News 1872.02.15.
487 “Are you now”: Spitzzeri 2008:198–200.
488 “took a couple”: News 1872.02.18.
488 “did feloniously”: Spitzzeri 2008:206
489 “I was a member”: District Court, Minute Book No. 11, 1872.03.05, DCC.
489 “Everyone who participated”: “People vs. L. F. Crenshaw et al.,” 1871.11.29, Box 8, #1084, Criminal/Huntington.
489 “there was no proof”: “People vs. Louis M. Mendell et al.,” 1871.11.28, Box 9, #1115, Criminal/Huntington.
489 “failed to establish”: Spitzzeri 2008:197.
489 “all are responsible”: “People vs. L. F. Crenshaw et al.,” 1871.11.29, Box 8, #1084, Criminal/Huntington.
490 “fatally defective”: Ibid.
490 “To this most lame”: Star 1873.06.11.
490 “There is no doubt”: Bell 1930:176.
491 “Ever since that earlier”: Bell 1930:166.
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493 “Where is all this”: Star 1851.06.27, clipping Hayes 1877b 43:92.
494 “The Sonorans are”: Star 1872.01.27.
494 “Los Angeles will soon”: San Francisco Chronicle 1872.01.25.
495 “by Judge Widney”: Sacramento Daily Union 1877.08.18.
495 “There are some who”: San Francisco Chronicle 1874.05.19.
495 “No attempt was made”: Star 1874.05.15.
496 forty-seven murders: Faragher 2014.
496 “I did not share”: Turner 1960:141.
497 “I don’t like the looks”: Turner 1960:152–54.
497 “Mrs. Turner”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.04.
497 Francisco Bustamante: Spitzzeri 1999:297; q.v. “Francisco Bustamante,” federal manuscript census, Los Angeles County, 1870.
497 “first in the field”: Turner 1960:158.
498 “chopped it down”: Turner 1960:162.
498 “Swift and terrible”: Star 1874.06.07.
498 “There are instances”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.09.
499 “Perhaps the fact”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1874.06.06
499 “some of the worthiest”: Star 1874.06.07.
499 “unable to find any”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.13.
499 “kill the whole”: Newmark 1916:470–71.
499 “If, by chance”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.10.
499 “I am now”: Turner 1960:173.
500 “With all the horrors”: News 1872.10.29.
500 frequency of lethal conflict: Faragher 2014.
500 new normal: Monkkonen 2005a and 2005b.
501 “The criminal record”: Los Angeles Herald 1875.01.01.
501 three times the rate of New York City: Monkkonen 2005b:172.
501 “During the last month”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.30.
501 “the best 25 cent meals”: Ritchie 1963:xvii.
502 “a most comely woman”: “McDonald Uxoricide,” Box 2, folder 7, Mesmer 1860–1914.
502 “She sat there”: San Francisco Chronicle 1874.07.02.
502 “I’m dead”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.06.30.
502 “But she was past”: Joseph Mesmer, “McDonald Uxoricide,” Box 2, folder 7, Mesmer 1860–1914.
502 “Threats have been made”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.07.01.
503 “People are justified”: Los Angeles Herald 1874.10.01.
504 Lucca Marasovich: Alta California 1872.12.07; Eterovich 1979:67–68.
504 “I heard the man”: “People v. Lucca Marasovich,” 1874.05.10, Box 11, #1194, Criminal/Huntington.
504 “Navio Valenzuela is”: Star 1874.05.13.
505 “a severe wound”: “People v. Lucca Marasovich,” 1874.05.10, Box 11, #1194, Criminal/Huntington.
505 “was not guilty”: Sacramento Daily Union 1875.04.13.
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507 “Any murderer”: Los Angeles Herald 1904.09.18.
507 “of a very personal”: Sacramento Daily Union 1877.06.20.
508 el abogado de los pobres: Harrison 1953:180.
509 “make a two-sided affair”: Harrison 1953:202–5, 241–42.
509 “foul play”: Los Angeles Times 1895.11.27; Salomon 2010:152-54.
510 “Forgive me”: Los Angeles Herald 1883.08.31.
510 “There is little sympathy”: Sacramento Daily Union 1883.08.31.
510 “the denial of justice”: Los Angeles Herald 1883.08.31; Cole 1978:89–94,
511 “one of the elect”: Los Angeles Times 1899.01.01.
511 “I don’t know what”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.17.
512 “What do you mean”: Los Angeles Times 1899.01.03; Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.17.
512 “a common chippie”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.16.
512 “The statement is so”: Los Angeles Times 1899.02.14.
512 “Gray haired matrons”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.18.
512 “Stung by King’s desertion”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.17.
513 “When the jury”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.02.18.
513 “nectar from old Kaintuck”: Los Angele
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