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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 1895 · Humboldt County, California

Four people held at the jail in Eureka, California, died in August 1895 after a mob broke into the jail and took them out. The mob hanged them from a rail supported by two trees. The people are not named in the account.

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

Reported by: news reports.

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