Died in custody
Name not reported
Three men were taken from officers after their arrest and hanged from trees near Auburn, according to a brief Semi-Weekly Interior Journal report published in March 1886. The newspaper gave no names for the men and no exact date for the events. The account says they were hanged to convenient trees by a mob, but it does not describe how the officers responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.