Harris
Harris, a Black man, was held in the jail at North Vernon, Indiana. A Cincinnati dispatch printed in the New Orleans Daily Democrat says that on the night of October 11, 1878, about one hundred masked men overpowered the jail's guards and entered the building. The dispatch says the men seized Harris in a hallway leading to the cells and stabbed him to death. The jail's guards were overpowered rather than handing him over, according to the same account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati dispatch quoted in the New Orleans Daily Democrat says a mob of about one hundred masked men overpowered the guards at the North Vernon, Indiana jail, stabbed Harris in the heart and cut his body apart.
Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch quoted in the New Orleans Daily Democrat (reporters).