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June 22, 1874 – French Creek, Idaho Territory: Mob Lynched Chinese Cook After Hatchet Attack on a White Man
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Narrative
In June 1874 in French Creek, Idaho Territory, a Chinese cook attacked his employer, August Berg, with a hatchet, seriously wounding him. The cook was subsequently captured by a sheriff, but a disguised vigilante mob seized him and hanged him from a wire bridge over the Salmon River, exemplifying frontier mob justice against Chinese suspects.
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