Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Kern County, California

A man held in the jail at Mojave, California, was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a one-line item in The Osceola Times published March 26, 1904. Nothing else about him is recorded in that account, and the item gives no name, age, or date of death.

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

Reported by: The Osceola Times (reporters).

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