Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Frank Jones

died September 1884 · Kansas

Frank Jones was held in a jail in Kansas in September 1884. According to the Richmond Dispatch, between one and two in the morning about fifteen or twenty armed men took him from the jail and hanged him from a gangplank used by workmen at a new building. The death was a mob killing from custody.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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