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Yreka Lynching

NEAR THIS SPOT AT 3:AM AUGUST 3, 1935 CLYDE JOHNSON, NATIVE OF ALABAMA, 
WAS LYNCHES BY A YET UNKNOWN GROUP OF MASKED MEN 
FOR THE MURDER OF DUNSMUIR CHIEF OF POLICE FRANK R. (JACK) DAW 
AFTER ROBBING PADULA'S BAR IN CASTELLA, SHASTA CO. OF $35.00 

THIS MONUMENT DEDICATED 
AUGUST 3, 1991 BY 
HUMBUG CHAPTER #73 
E CLAMPUS VITUS

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