Died in jail or a lockup
H. W. Tuny
According to a brief wire item in The Washington Critic, about twenty disguised men took H. W. Tuny from the jail at Lynchburg, Virginia, and hanged them on May 18, 1885. The item does not say how the men got into the jail, or whether jail officers resisted or handed Tuny over. The source is a garbled newspaper text, so the spelling of the name and other details are uncertain.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.