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Chinese Man Reported Lynched in Confused Borderland Reports
Narrative
In July 1911, Honolulu newspapers reported that a Chinese man had been lynched in El Paso and that forty Chinese men were jailed on suspicion. But The Montgomery Advertiser placed the killing across the border in Juárez, where a Chinese man was found hanging from a tree, and twenty Chinese men were arrested. The surviving reports are sparse and contradictory, but they point to a rare late lynching report from the El Paso–Juárez borderlands.