Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In the 1850s, during a vigilance-committee episode in Sacramento, a crowd broke into a jail, took a man held there and hanged him from a tree, according to an 1895 newspaper account printed within a profile of a drummer named Britton. The account gives no name for the man or the jail. It also does not say how the jail's keepers responded to the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A historical newspaper account says a crowd broke into the Sacramento jail and hanged a man held there from a tree.
Reported by: historical newspaper account (within a profile of a drummer named Britton) (reporters).