Died in jail or a lockup
Frank Sonet
Frank Sonet was held in the Wellington jail in Wellington, Kansas, when, on September 15, 1884, a party of fifteen or twenty masked men took him from the jail in the early morning. According to the Mohave County Miner, the men hanged him from a plank used by workmen building a house. The Aberdeen Examiner reported the lynching on September 18, 1884, without naming him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.