Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Oklahoma

A headline in The San Francisco Call of April 20, 1909, reports that a mob stormed an Oklahoma jail and lynched four men held there. The men's names are not given in the excerpt. The mob took the men from the jail and killed them. The headline does not say how the jail's officers responded to the mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report