Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five men held in a jail were taken from it by a mob of about seventy-five men who arrived in automobiles and broke in. According to the jailer's account, he refused to give up the keys, but the mob searched him, took the keys, unlocked the jail's steel vault and removed the five men. The Dawson News, in a January 1916 report, carried a headline saying the five were hung. The jailer's account is the only account of how the keys were taken.
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 and removed five men from the jail before they were hanged.
Reported by: The Dawson News, citing the jailer's account (reporters).