A Chinaman Lynched in Montana

Newspaper:Hartford Courant
Publication Date:   Jan 27, 1870
Published at:Hartford, Conneticus
Page Number:3
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Article Transcript

A CHINAMAN LYNCHED IN MONTANA.

[A Chinaman] [who] murdered Jonathan R. Batzer on the 15th of January, was found on Wednesday morning hanging on the celebrated Hangman’s tree of the vigilants in Helena, Montana. Pasted on his back was his crime and the words: ‘Beware! The vigilants still live.’

Citation

“A Chinaman Lynched in Montana.” Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), January 26, 1870.