Died in jail or a lockup
Garland Moreno
Garland Moreno was the youngest of four men taken from the Siskiyou County jail in California in August 1895. A mob led him out with a rope around his neck and hanged him. Reports from the time say that before he died he asked that his mother be told he was innocent. The accounts do not record any official statement about the death or any account from the jail itself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.