Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the county jail at Hamilton was, according to a dispatch from Hamilton printed in the Yakima Herald, taken from the jail in January 1912 by a mob of about 100 men. The dispatch says the mob also took three other Black people, three men and one woman, and hanged all four. It says the bodies were riddled with bullets. His name was not given in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 100 men took him from the county jail in Hamilton and hanged him, according to a dispatch the Yakima Herald printed.
Reported by: The Yakima Herald, citing a dispatch from Hamilton (reporters).