Died in jail or a lockup
Fin Rainsbarger
Fin Kainsbarger, also given as Rainsbarger, was held at the jail in Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, together with his brother. According to a Memphis newspaper, about seventy-five masked men took the two brothers from the jail around 1 a.m. on June 5, 1885, and shot them. A Dallas paper dated his death to June 6, 1885, and reported that a mob of about seventy-five masked men took him from the jail and shot him many times over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Marshalltown dispatch (reporters).