Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was one of several men held in the jail at Fort Mason. A mob broke into the jail, put the men on horses and rode them about a mile and a half to a large tree. There they were hanged, and five of the men were already dead when the rope party left.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: recollection of a mob hanging at the Fort Mason jail, given decades later (witnesses).