Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — FIVE MEN LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

FIVE MEN LYNCHED.

California Mob Hangs Father, Three Sons and a Companion. Five men were lynched at Lookout, Modoc County, Cal., early Friday morning. The lynched were Calvin Hall, 72 years of age; his three half-breed sons, Frank, James and Martin, aged respectively 26, 19 and 16, and B. D. Yantis, aged 27. The men lynched had been suspected of petty stealing for some time. They were arrested for stealing barb wire, pieces of harness and some hay forks and taken to Lookout, where they were being held awaiting examination and trial. The charges agains the elder Hall was petty larceny for stealing the forks, hence he was allowed to go on his own recognizance. The charge against the others was burglary. They were held in custody, as they were unable to furnish bail of S3OO. Pending their examination they were being guarded in the Lookout hotel by a constable. Friday morning at 2 o’clock a mob composed of thirty or forty persons suddenly made its appearance at the hotel, and, pointing their guns at the two officers on guard, commanded them ot observe silence. The five prisoners were captured, ropes placed around their necks, and they were dragged toward the bridge which crosses the Pitt river. Frank Hall made such strong resistance that the mob hanged him before it got to the main bridge. The others were taken to the main bridge and Calvin Hall, the father, was hanged on the north side, and Yantis and the other Hall boys were hanged on the south side of the bridge.