Died in jail or a lockup
Garland Mann
Garland Mann was held in a jail when, according to a St. Louis dispatch printed in the Richmond Dispatch, a mob came for him on the night of August 5, 1885. The dispatch says about twenty-five people overpowered the jailer and shot him to death, after he defended himself with a pocket-knife. The jail is not named in the account, and the mob was reported to have come from the area near Pineville. The dispatch does not say how the mob got past the jailer.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A St. Louis dispatch reported that a mob of about twenty-five broke into the jail, overpowered the jailer and shot him in his cell.
Reported by: St. Louis dispatch in the Richmond Dispatch (reporters).