Died in jail or a lockup
Albert Roberts
Albert Roberts was held in the jail at Lewiston, Idaho, in January 1893. According to the Morning News and the Daily Public Ledger, a mob of twenty-five or thirty masked, armed men came to the courthouse at midnight and, at the point of a revolver, demanded the cell key from Deputy Sheriff Wright, who handed it over. The mob took Roberts from the jail across the road to an old grist mill and hanged him there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked, armed men took Albert Roberts from the jail after Deputy Sheriff Wright handed over the cell key at gunpoint, and hanged him.
Reported by: Deputy Sheriff Wright (the agency that held him); news reports.