Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Mojave, California, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a brief 1904 item in the Cotter Courier. The item gives no name, age, or exact date for the person. It does not say whether the jail's officers or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched