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Frank McCutchen

16 years old · died November 26, 1887 · Oakdale Jail, Stanislaus County, California

Frank McCutchen was sixteen years old, and The Citizen described him as Latino. The Big Sandy News reported that a mob overpowered the constable who was taking him from Oakdale, California, toward the county jail, took him from the officer, and hanged him from an oak tree in a field near the road, where his body was found the next morning. The Citizen, reporting two days later, said a mob took him from the jail at Oakdale and lynched him. The two accounts differ on whether he was in the constable's charge or already held in the jail when the mob reached him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob overpowered the constable taking him from Oakdale toward the county jail, took him from the officer's charge and hanged him from an oak tree.

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