SAADA

"Hindoo Pleads Guilty to Crime"

DESCRIPTION
Newspaper article from an undated source describes the sentence for Ashar Singh (misspelled here as "Ashur"), who was charged with "attempting an unnatural crime upon the person of a boy at Burley." The article indicates that the attempted crime had caused an "uprising by Burley last Sunday when the Hindoo population was ordered to leave town."

THEMES
Law & Justice

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: 1915
Subject(s): Ashar Singh
Language: English
Location: Idaho

PROVENANCE
Holding Institution: Idaho State Archives
Collection: Idaho Penitentiary Inmate Records
Item History: 2011-12-16 (created); 2013-07-17 (modified)

* This digital object may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media without express written consent from the copyright holder and the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). The user is responsible for all issues of copyright. If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact us by email at copyright@saada.org to discuss its removal from the archive.