Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Kern County, California

A Black person was held in the jail at Mojave, California, according to a short 1904 report in The Newark Journal. The paper says a mob took them from the jail and hanged them. No name is given for the person.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report