Died in jail or a lockup
C. A. Maston
C. A. Maston was being held in the jail at Bloomington, Indiana, according to a brief February 1876 dispatch in The Dallas Daily Herald. The paper reported that a masked mob took him from the jail and shot him dead. The dispatch does not say whether jail staff resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (February 1876) (reporters).