Chinese Man Found Hanging at the Old Pest House

On August 20, 1884, the El Paso Times reported that a Chinese man had been found hanging at the old pest house, calling it “the second such case reported.” The paper said authorities made no real investigation and treated the death as an act of “Providence,” while funds were privately raised for burial. With no named victim, suspects, or inquest result, the case remains an ambiguous but suspicious possible lynching. This is one of the two Texas lynchings included in the John Crow dataset.