Died in jail or a lockup
Andrew Pikkarien
Andrew Pikkarien was being held in the village jail at Ewen, Wisconsin, on February 6, 1894. According to The Progressive Farmer, about fifty masked men surrounded the jail, and the village officers protested but could not stop them. The men smashed in the jail doors, dragged him out, and took him about eighty rods to a railroad trestle. There they hanged him, as the paper reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account says a mob of about fifty masked men broke the doors of the Ewen village jail, took him out and hanged him at a railroad trestle, and that the officers protested but could not stop them.
Reported by: historical newspaper account.