Died in jail or a lockup
C. A. Benson
C. A. Benson died on December 16, 1892, while held at the Leavenworth jail in Leavenworth, Kansas. A December 22, 1892 report in the Delaware Gazette and State Journal, which cites no named source, says he stabbed himself and that the death was a suicide. According to that report, he first tried to attack the captain assigned to watch him. No other account of the death was found.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A news dispatch says he stabbed himself in the Leavenworth jail.
Reported by: unnamed news dispatch.