Mob Strung Up a Chinaman

A Colorado mob ties a “Chinaman” to a tree because of his "efforts to run away with a white girl". They threaten him "with death” if he does not leave town.

Idaho Springs, Colo., June 11.-- Lou Sing, a Chinaman, has been strung up to a tree twice by a mob and threatened with death if he did not leave the town never to return. The mob's wrath was aroused by the Chinaman's efforts to run away with a white girl named Nellie Merchen. It is not believed the Chinaman suffered severely, other than being cut around the neck with the rope and knocked down twice.

“Mob Strung Up a Chinaman,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1066.