Died in custody
A. K. West
A. K. West was in the custody of officers who were taking him to the place where a body had been found in Sandusky, according to the National Associated Press dispatch printed in the Cincinnati Daily Star. That night, the dispatch says, a mob took him from the officers and hanged him from a lamp-post.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the officers escorting him and hanged him from a lamp-post in Sandusky, according to the National Associated Press dispatch to the Star.
Reported by: National Associated Press to the Star (reporters).