Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of six men held in the Lake City jail when a mob came for them in May 1911, according to The San Francisco Call. The paper reports that the mob got the prisoners by posing as officials with a telegram, and that the sheriff's son handed them over. The mob took the men outside the town and shot them. Residents heard distant gunfire and later found the bodies, by which time 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 the sheriff's son handed them over before the mob shot them outside town.
Reported by: The San Francisco Call (reporters).