Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Irwin Grubb

McDonald County Jail, McDonald County, Missouri

Irwin Grubb was held at the jail at Pineville, in McDonald County, Missouri, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree. A brief November 1885 newspaper item is the only account of the death.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

News report