Died in jail or a lockup
Jack Chesterfield
Jack Chesterfield died on August 9, 1905, while held in the Seattle county jail. According to the Colfax Gazette, he damaged his cell and locked himself inside with two revolvers while firefighters flooded it, and he shot himself in the head after standing in two feet of water. The Gazette described the death as a suicide from a gunshot wound to the head.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The record gives the cause as a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, but names no source for this account.