An Inoffensive Chinaman Murdered by a Mob

Newspaper:The Princeton Union
Publication Date:   Wed, Jun 3, 1896
Published at:Oroville, California
Page Number:3
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His Head Is Beaten to a Jelly With Clubs by a Crowd of Masked Men

Anaconda, Mont., June 3.—News brought in from Quigley is to the effect that a Chinaman known as Big Hank, was killed there yesterday by a mob of masked men. His head was crushed in with clubs. Attempts to drive him out of the camp had failed. About two weeks ago Ed Moore protected the Chinaman, standing off his enemies with a Winchester. Supt. Babock discharged the leaders of the mob at the time and thought the trouble was to be at an end. Big Hank built a cabin and started a laundry in Quigley is the new mining camp where the works of Golden Scepter Mining company is located.

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An Inoffensive Chinaman Murdered by a Mob. The Princeton Union (Princeton, MN), June 3 1896, 3. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016758/1896-06-04/ed-1/seq-3/