Newspaper interview with "Kanaka Joe the Murder"
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Is a newspaper article published in the Washington Standard (Olympia Washington)on Saturday, November 1st, 1873 leading up to the hanging of Kanaka Joe in Port Townsend Washington. The article alludes to the partial innocence of Joe in the totality of the murders while placing blame elsewhere.
This file appears in: The Hanging of "Kanaka Joe"
The Hanging of "Kanaka Joe" – A savage crime led to an equally savage punishment on the frontier.
In June of 1873 settlers James and Selina Jane Dwyer were murdered on their homestead at Kanaka Bay on San Juan Island. James was shot as he worked in his fields. His pregnant wife was sewing baby clothes in their little cabin when the killer found…