Record 66 of 74
Chinese Man Found Hanging at Mowry Station
Narrative
On December 19, 1894, San Francisco newspapers reported that an unidentified Chinese man had been found hanging from a tree near Mowry Station, or Mowry’s Landing, near Newark. The San Francisco Examiner and The San Francisco Call and Post both stated that “it is supposed he committed suicide,” while San Francisco Chronicle reported that Coroner Evers would investigate the death. The case remains ambiguous, but it preserves a hanging death that contemporaries did not fully explain.