Died in jail or a lockup
Alden Rodman
Alden Rodman was taken from a jail by a mob and hanged, according to a story in the Daily Los Angeles Herald, reprinted from a San Francisco paper, about a murder at Seymour, Indiana, seventeen years earlier. The reprint identifies the place as Indiana but not the jail that held him. The account is the only source given for the lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A reprinted San Francisco paper account says a mob took Alden Rodman from a jail and hanged him.
Reported by: San Francisco paper reprinted by the Herald (reporters).