Name not reported
A Japanese man who had worked as a waiter at the Gem restaurant on Fourth Street in Ogden, Utah, was held in the local jail in April 1884. According to a New York Herald correspondent's account, reprinted in the Savannah Morning News, about twenty-five men came to the jail before daybreak and demanded the keys to his cell. When the keys were refused, they broke the lock, took him into the jail yard and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A correspondent for the New York Herald reported that about twenty-five men demanded the jail keys, broke the lock when refused, and hanged him in the jail yard.
Reported by: Ogden special correspondent to the New York Herald, as reprinted in the Savannah Morning News (reporters).