Died in jail or a lockup
Corniack
Corniack was one of two men a mob took from a jail in Trinidad, Colorado and hanged, according to a brief item in The Cincinnati Daily Star published on August 25, 1879. The jail that held him was the place from which the mob took him, and the item reports only that he was hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched