Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a September 1885 dispatch in the Press and Daily Dakotaian, one of five Chinese men held in an Idaho jail was taken out at night by a group of citizens. The dispatch dates his death to September 21, 1885. A mob hanged him from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (1885) (reporters).