Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Fort Mason was taken from it when a mob broke in, mounted him on horses with other men held there, and drove them about a mile and a half to a large tree, where he was hanged. According to a recollection published decades later, five of the men were dead by the time the mob left. The account describes the jail as the place the men were held and the mob as the group that took them from it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A later recollection says a mob broke into the Fort Mason jail, took several men held there and hanged them from a tree about a mile and a half away.
Reported by: a later recollection of the lynching.