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Chou Tee

California

Chou Tee was hanged at the jail's gallows, according to the Amador Weekly Ledger. The paper described him as calm, collected and cool up to the fatal moment, and said he was calmer on the gallows than any man its reporters had seen executed. Before his death, he told a fellow prisoner that he accepted his fate. The paper reported that he struggled somewhat after the drop fell.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: newspaper account of the hanging.

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