Tragedy off the Coast of Camano Island
A party of loggers discovered the bound body of a Chinese man near the southern end of Camano Island, pointing to a brutal crime.
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A party of Stanwood men, Austin Oars, Ed Joie and William Styles, were out last Monday picking up logs in the Sound. While in the vicinity of the southern end of Camano island they found the body of a Chinaman with its hands and feet firmly bound with a rope. It seems very probable that a murder of an atrocious character has been committed somewhere and by some one.
This account is a stark, brief document of the violence often directed against the Chinese population in the Puget Sound region during the late 19th century, reflecting the era's climate of exclusion and danger for immigrant workers.
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