A Lynching of Years Gone By

The recent lynching at Rawhide, Nevada, recalls an incident in Chinese lynching in early days. A Chinaman had killed a fellow-countryman in the quarters of the Chinese on Mormon slough, and was suspected of the crime. The crime was done with a heavy billet of wood, and the murderer, as is usually the case, tried to act as an innocent party. But the Chinese knew who did the deed.

They quietly made preparations and one night the man was missed. He had been taken to the old slaughter house near the present site of the Western tannery and was there strung up and strangled.

The affair was reported to the authorities, but no action was ever taken, and the matter drifted into forgetfulness.