Scott Charles, thanks for adding Poundcake Hill and Normal Hill to your very informative map.
Scott Charles
Here's an amazing photograph that I don't recall seeing.
i.pin.mg.com
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Hanging by vigilantes on Poundcake Hill, Los Angeles" (Correction: the actual hanging is taking place at the bottom of the hill. The spectators are
on the hill)
It appears the body has already been cut down.
This next photograph I remember seeing. No doubt because you can still see Lacherais' body hanging.
USC
"Photograph of a crowd at the lynching of Miguel Lashenais (sp?) on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870.
A crowd gathers around the gate to the lumber yard. Lashenais, who was lynched for killing Jacob Bell, hangs from the archway.
Many people towards the outside of the crowd simply sit, watching. Tents and other spectators can be seen on the Poundcake Hill in the background.
The hill would later become the site of the Court House and then the Criminal Courts Building."
USC
ok...I'm confused.
I thought Poundcake Hill became the site of the High School. (I'm going to be embarrassed if I'm wrong)
The walking tour site of
KEN GONZALES-DAY has a altogether different location for the Lacherais hanging. [see below]
"Near the corner North Broadway and Temple was the original location of the Tomlinson & Griffith Corral. The high beam of its gate, and an angry mob,
claimed the life of "Michael Lachenais" in 1870. Historian Harris Newmark and others have argued that as many as a dozen men dies at this site."
A dozen men!? Could the top photograph be of a different hanging at the same location? Hence it's vague description.
And I should add: Another site has the Lecherais lynching taking place at Phinias Banning's Corral. [not the Tomlinson & Griffith Corral]
Added note:
Lacherais is sometimes spelled Lecherais.... USC spelled it 'Lashenais'
I used Jacob Bell (the name of the well known victim) to find most of this information.