Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On September 19, 1885, according to a dispatch from Lewiston, Idaho, a masked group took a Chinese man from a jail and hanged him from a tree. The dispatch reports that five Chinese men were killed in this way that day. It describes the masked group as wearing sacks with eyeholes and carrying repeating rifles, and says the men's houses were burned.
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).