Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man of Chinese origin, whose name is not recorded, was one of five Chinese men held in an Idaho jail in September 1885. According to a Lewiston, Idaho dispatch dated September 22 and printed in The Dillon Tribune, citizens took the five men from the jail and hanged them from trees. The dispatch does not say how the jail's officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lewiston, Idaho dispatch reports that citizens took five Chinese men from a jail and hanged them from trees.
Reported by: Lewiston, Idaho dispatch (reporters).