Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were being held in a local jail when, on January 17, 1911, a group of several local business and professional men broke into the jail and took them from their cells, according to the Nome Daily Nugget. The men were hanged from trees within three miles of town. The sheriff found their remains about thirty minutes after they were taken. The men died in a lynching carried out by the mob that seized them from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.