Cheney 1884

ID: 4105 ~ Source: Image courtesy the Library of Congress.

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

This detail is from a birds-eye view map of Cheney produced in the same year as the lynching. The jail, with its plank fence, is visible on the right. The tree to the right of the jail is likely where the men were lynched.

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.