Died in jail or a lockup
Anderson
Anderson was one of four men held in the New Albany jail in Indiana in 1893. According to newspaper accounts, a crowd of nearly a thousand people attacked the jail and held out against it for about four hours before breaking in. The mob took the four men from the jail and hanged them from a telegraph pole. The accounts describe the events in the jail but do not record Anderson's age, race, or family.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.