Died in jail or a lockup
Ernest Dowley
Ernest Dewley, a Black man, was being held in the jail at Brandenburg in 1902. Early on the morning of April 30, a mob of local citizens battered down the jail door, overpowered the jailer and took him from his cell, according to a dispatch from Brandenburg printed in The Hartford Republican. The mob carried him about half a mile out of town and hanged him from a tree. The dispatch says the jailer was overpowered rather than handing him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Brandenburg in The Hartford Republican says a mob battered down the jail door, overpowered the jailer and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: dispatch from Brandenburg in The Hartford Republican (reporters).