Rape in and out of State
These are the rapes that were reported in state.
Instate
In 1880- These cases consisted of three dismissed and pardoned men. Two uses of the term outrage to describe rape. Five child that were raped. Lastly two mentions of Native Americans, one about the rape of a young Native American girl and the other article about her community deciding to kill the man who raped her.
In 1900- These cases consisted of one breaking and entering done before the rape. Two rapes done by young men. Three that were dismissed and pardoned in court. Two that also included assaults. Three that involve a Native Americans girl. One that involves a mob attempting but failing to lynch a man convicted of rape. One that involved a rape that ended in murder. Lastly one case of a black man being burned at the stake for rape.
These are rapes that occured out of state.
Out of State
In 1880- These cases consisted of five that used the word outrage to describe rape. Four that involved the rape of a child. One that involves a Shooting. There were three lynching of Black men. One case of breaking and entering. Lastly one Chinese man that was send to San Juan for raping a child.
In 1900- Only two stories, one involved a shooting of a Mexican man found to be outraging (raping) a young girl, the shooting was done by her father. The other case involved the Nevada Supreme Court decision regarding a man who sued to libel of being convicted of rape in a newspaper.