Died in jail or a lockup
Edward Bennett
Edward Bennett, a Black man, was held in a jail in Kansas when a mob took him from custody and killed him on May 10, 1890. The Anaconda Standard reported the lynching in a brief dispatch published May 12, 1890. The jail that held him was the place from which the mob took him, and he was killed after being removed from it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire dispatch.