John Anderson
John Anderson was held in the jail at Lagrange in San Joaquin County, California. According to The Daily Dispatch, a group of forty or fifty men, described as strangers to the town, came to the jail, seized the county clerk and a constable who lived on the first floor, and broke open the doors to reach his cell. The paper reports that he resisted and called for help, and that his captors struck him on the head with a cold chisel, gagged him, and hanged him from a tree. The article says the mob took him from the jail and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of forty or fifty men broke into the Lagrange jail in San Joaquin County, California, seized the county clerk and a constable, and hanged John Anderson from a tree.
Reported by: news reports.