Name not reported
According to a letter writer who says he was at Pendleton, Oregon, at the time, a man held in the custody of a deputy sheriff was kept handcuffed to a saddle horn until dark and then taken toward Adams. The letter says a few men with a personal grudge against him hanged him from a scaffold there, and that his body had been removed by the next morning. The letter adds that no arrests were made, though the men involved were said to be known locally. The deputy's and sheriff's response to the mob is not described in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A letter writer who says he passed the scene the next morning reports that a mob hanged the man, who had been held in a deputy sheriff's custody at Pendleton.
Reported by: letter writer who says he was at Pendleton at the time and passed the scene the next morning.