Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Lake City jail was one of six men taken from the jail by a mob, according to a San Francisco Call account published May 22, 1911. The account says the mob obtained the prisoners by posing as officials with a telegram, and that the sheriff's son handed them over. The men were taken outside the town and shot, and residents heard distant gunfire and later found the bodies after the mob had gone.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The San Francisco Call reported that a mob obtained the prisoners from the Lake City jail by posing as officials with a telegram and that the sheriff's son handed them over before the men were shot outside town.
Reported by: The San Francisco Call (reporters).