Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a San Francisco Call report from September 1895, a man of the Ruggles family, the other of two brothers, was taken from a jail by citizens and lynched. The account, which concerns a state ruling on a reward for the brothers' capture, does not give his first name or the date of his death. It also does not say whether jail staff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Sacramento report on a state ruling about the reward for the brothers' capture (reporters).