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 in May 1911, according to The San Francisco Call. The newspaper reports that 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. 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 posing as officials took six men from the Lake City jail, with the sheriff's son handing them over, and shot them outside town.
Reported by: The San Francisco Call (reporters).