Name not reported

Five Chinese men held in an Idaho jail in September 1885 were, according to a Lewiston dispatch reprinted in The True Northerner, taken from the jail by citizens during the night and hanged from trees. The dispatch gives no names for the men. Their deaths are described as a lynching carried out by a mob that took them from the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lewiston dispatch reports citizens took five Chinese men from a jail in Idaho during the night and hanged them from trees.

Reported by: Lewiston (Idaho) dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The True Northerner, October 1, 1885, page 2 The True Northerner, October 1, 1885