Died in jail or a lockup
J. T. Noakes
J. T. Noakes was held in the Oroville jail in California in early August 1881. Several newspaper accounts report that a group of masked and armed men took him from the jail, carried him a short distance from town, and hanged him from a tree on August 7. The accounts describe the killing as a lynching carried out by a mob, and they do not name the men involved.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.