Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob took a man from a jail on the night of Tuesday, June 4, 1889, and hanged him from a telegraph pole, according to a brief Sacramento Daily Record-Union item published June 6, 1889. His name and the jail that held him are not given. The item does not say whether jail officers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.