Lynching Site

ID: 4670 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of the author.

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Today, a parking lot for the old Cheney High School is over the site of the jail. The courthouse and even the trees adjacent to the old jail are long gone.

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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.