Spokane Outrage

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This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings
Spokane Outrage

This account of events published in a Cheney newspaper days after the lynching attempted to justify the crime, and established the false narrative of the unidentified mob from Spokane.

This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings

By Larry Cebula
This quiet street corner in Cheney was once the scene of two brutal murders. From 1881 until 1886, the frontier village of Cheney was also the seat of government for Spokane County. A wooden, two-story courthouse and plank jailhouse were the sum…