Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black men held at a jail were taken from it by a mob of about seventy-five men who arrived in automobiles, according to the jailer's account reported by The Dawson News. The jailer said he refused to give up the keys, but the mob searched him, took them, unlocked the jail's steel vault and removed the men. The paper's headline reports that the five were hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The jailer says he refused to give up the keys, and the mob took them, unlocked the vault and removed five men, who were reported hanged.
Reported by: The Dawson News, citing the jailer's account (reporters).