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Lynching

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At 3:00 a.m. on August 3, 1935, near this spot, Clyde Johnson, a native of Alabama, was lynched by an as yet unknown group of masked men after he murdered Dunsmuir police chief Frank E. (Jack) Daw and robbed Padula’s bar in Castella, Shasta County, of $35.00.
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