Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Kern County, California

A person held at the jail in Mojave, California, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a short wire report published in March 1904. The person is not named in the report, and no age or exact date of death is given. The report is a brief dispatch, and the sheriff or jailer's response to the mob is not described.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report