Holly Epps
Holly Epps, a Black man, was held in a jail that the Alexandria Gazette placed at Vincennes, Indiana, in January 1886. The Alexandria Gazette reported that a mob took him from the jail and lynched him the day before its report. According to the Macon Beacon, about fifteen masked men came from Greene County to take him, and the sheriff refused to open the door. The Macon Beacon says the men broke through the doors and an iron door to reach his cell, led him to a tree in the courthouse yard, and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Holly Epps from the Vincennes, Indiana jail and lynched him, according to a brief telegraphic report and a longer account of the mob breaking through the jail doors to reach his cell.
Reported by: Alexandria Gazette telegraphic brevities (reporters); newspaper account of the Vincennes lynching (reporters).