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Cheney Jail

ID: 4104 ~ Source: Image courtesy of EWU Archives and Special Collections.
This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

This photograph of the old Cheney jail shows the simple construction.

This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

By Larry Cebula
In the early 1880s two men were hanged without trial, one Chinese and the other a Spokane Indian.

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