Hong Hi

According to a dispatch from Colusa, California, printed in the Martinsburg Independent in July 1887, Hong Hi worked as a domestic servant. The dispatch reports that Hong Hi was held in a jail, and that a mob took them from it on a Saturday night and hanged them. Hong Hi was a Chinese domestic worker, and the dispatch is the only account of the death.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Colusa, California, as reported in the paper, says a mob took Hong Hi from a jail and hanged him.

Reported by: dispatch from Colusa, Cal., as reported in the paper (reporters).

Source

• Martinsburg Independent, July 16, 1887, page 4 Martinsburg Independent, July 16, 1887