Died in jail or a lockup
Gustmen
Gustmen, a Black man, was held in a jail when a mob took him on Friday, July 17, 1868, according to a brief New-York Tribune item published three days later. The mob seized him from the jail, and the item does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over. It also does not say how he was killed. The available account is brief and its details beyond the seizure cannot be confirmed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched