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Martin Hall

16 years old · died May 31, 1901 · Lookout Hotel, Modoc County, California

Martin Hall, age 16, was one of Calvin Hall's three sons. He was among five men held by local officers at Lookout, Modoc County, California, when a mob took them from the officers and hanged them from a bridge on May 31, 1901, according to the Evening Journal. The Monticellonian's editorial of June 7, 1901 named none of the five men and called for the participants to be hanged legally.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: The Monticellonian editorial (reporters); Lookout hotel account of the mob hanging of five men taken from local officers (reporters).

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