B. D. Yantis
B. D. Yantis, 27, was being held at the Lookout Hotel in Lookout, Modoc County, California, while awaiting examination, with a constable and his assistants guarding the building. According to a newspaper dispatch datelined Bieber, Cal., a mob of thirty to fifty men took him from the guards in the early morning of May 31, 1901, and hanged him on the south side of the bridge over Pitt River. The dispatch reports that the guards were overpowered, not whether they resisted, gave up keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch datelined Bieber, Cal. reports that a mob of thirty to fifty men took Yantis from the constable and assistants guarding him at the Lookout Hotel and hanged him on the bridge over Pitt River.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch datelined Bieber, Cal. (reporters).