Died in jail or a lockup
Charles Smith
Charles Smith was one of three men held in the Sumner County jail in Kansas. According to a reprint of a Topeka Record report carried in August 1874, a mob took the three men out of the jail and hanged them. Smith was killed after being taken from the jail where he was being held.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Topeka Record reported that Charles Smith was taken out of the jail and hung, with the article not saying who took him or whether jailers resisted.
Reported by: Topeka (Kan.) Record (reporters).