James Hall
James Hall was one of Calvin Hall's sons. According to the Indianapolis Journal, he was held under guard at the Lookout Hotel in Modoc County, California, awaiting examination, when a mob of 30 to 50 men took him and four other men from the guards and hanged them from a bridge over the Pit River on the night of May 31, 1901. The Griggs Courier gives a different place, saying the mob took him from the jail at Adin and that the constable and guard were overpowered. The Monticellonian, in an editorial that June, called for the participants to be hanged legally.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1901 newspaper dispatch reports a mob seized James Hall and four others from guards at the Lookout hotel and hanged them from the bridge over Pit River.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch datelined Bieber, Cal. (reporters); Susanville dispatch, June 1, 1901 (reporters); The Monticellonian editorial (reporters).
Sources (12)
- Evening Journal, June 1, 1901, page 1
- The Indianapolis Journal, June 1, 1901, page 1
- Phillipsburg Herald, June 4, 1901, page 1
- Barbour County Index, June 5, 1901, page 1
- The News-Herald, June 6, 1901, page 2
- The Pioneer Press, June 6, 1901, page 7
- Griggs Courier, June 6, 1901, page 2
- The Monticellonian, June 7, 1901, page 2
- The Kinsley Graphic, June 7, 1901, page 6
- Barton County Democrat, June 7, 1901, page 3
- Baxter Springs News, June 8, 1901, page 6
- Grand Rapids Herald-Review, June 8, 1901, page 2