Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On January 22, 1912, a mob of about 100 men took a Black man from the county jail in Hamilton, according to a dispatch the Yakima Herald printed two days later. The paper, citing that dispatch, said the mob also took three other Black people, three men and one woman, from the jail. The four were said to have been shot and hanged, and their bodies were said to be riddled with bullets.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Hamilton, as reported by the Yakima Herald, says a mob of about 100 men took him from the county jail and shot and hanged him.
Reported by: The Yakima Herald, citing a dispatch from Hamilton (reporters).