Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In March 1904, a mob took a man from the jail at Mojave, California, and killed him, according to a short item in the Aberdeen Weekly of Mississippi published March 18 of that year. He was being held in the jail when the mob took him. The item gives no name for him, and it does not say how the jail's officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.