Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of six men held in the Lake City jail. According to a San Francisco Call account published May 22, 1911, a mob came to the jail posing as officials carrying a telegram, and the sheriff's son handed the six men over. The mob took them outside the town and shot them. Residents of Lake City 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, and the sheriff's son handed them over before the men were shot outside town.
Reported by: The San Francisco Call (reporters).