Died in custody
Name not reported
Three Black men held by officers in Auburn were taken by a mob and hanged from trees near the town. A Semi-Weekly Interior Journal item published on March 26, 1886, reported the killings. The account attributes the hangings to the mob, and it describes the men only as people taken from officers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief newspaper item reports that a mob took three men from officers and hanged them from trees near Auburn.
Reported by: brief newspaper item.