Died in jail or a lockup
D. H. Wissman
D. H. Wissman was held at the jail in Malden, Missouri, in December 1917. A large crowd gathered and threatened to break into the jail, and the sheriff and his deputies held them off. According to the account, someone in the crowd fired through a window and fatally wounded Wissman. He was taken to Kennett that night.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd gathered at the Malden jail while the sheriff and deputies held them off, and someone in the crowd fired through a window and fatally wounded him.
Reported by: sheriff and deputies at the Malden jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.