Berner
Berner was held in the Cincinnati jail when, according to the Weekly Phoenix Herald of April 10, 1884, a mob broke into the jail and courthouse after a jury verdict. The paper says he had been secretly moved from the jail toward the state penitentiary at Columbus, and that the crowd took him from a train at a town before Columbus and hanged him. The paper also reports that the courthouse burned during the riot and that some thirty or forty citizens died. This account comes from a single 1884 newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Phoenix Herald reports that a mob took Berner from the Cincinnati jail after a courthouse riot and hanged him at a town before Columbus.
Reported by: Weekly Phoenix Herald (reporters).