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 of September 21, 1885, and hanged to trees, according to a dispatch dated September 23 and printed in the Wessington Springs Herald. The men had been held in the jail when the crowd came for them. The dispatch describes the killing as a lynching by citizens.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch dated September 23, 1885 says citizens took him from a jail and hanged him to a tree.
Reported by: news reports.