Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Chinese men were taken from a jail in Idaho in September 1885 by a masked mob and hanged from trees. According to a dispatch from Lewiston, printed in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette, the masked group wore sacks with eyeholes and carried repeating rifles. The mob also burned the men's houses. The men's names are not recorded in the account, and this is one of the five deaths described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Lewiston, Idaho reports that masked citizens took five Chinese men from a jail and hanged them from trees.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Lewiston, Idaho (reporters).