Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was a Chinese man, one of five Chinese men held in an Idaho jail in September 1885. According to a Lewiston, Idaho dispatch published in The Dillon Tribune, citizens took the five men out of the jail and hanged them from trees. The dispatch dated September 22 gives no individual names for the men. Whether the jailer resisted the mob or handed the men over is not known.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lewiston, Idaho dispatch says citizens took five Chinese men held in a jail and hanged them from trees.
Reported by: Lewiston, Idaho dispatch (reporters).