Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Chinese men were taken from a jail by a crowd of citizens on the Monday night before a dispatch dated September 23, 1885, and hanged from trees, according to that report. The dispatch gives no names or ages for the men, and the jail's name and location cannot be read in the archived text. It does not say whether jail staff resisted the crowd, gave up the keys or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch dated September 23, 1885 reports that citizens took five Chinese men from a jail and hanged them to trees.
Reported by: news reports.