Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Chinese man was held in a jail in Idaho in September 1885. According to a dispatch published by The San Antonio Light on September 23, 1885, citizens took him out of the jail and hanged him from a tree. The second Chinese man held in the same jail was killed by the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.