Died in jail or a lockup
One of 4 people whose names were not reported
A mob took a man identified only as Johnson from the county jail in Yreka, California, at about 2 a.m. on August 26, 1895, and hanged him in the jail yard. According to the dispatch, he was one of four men taken from the jail that night, along with men named Semler, Null and Moreno. No official source is named for the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.