Died in jail or a lockup
J. M. Hoover
J. J. Hoover was held in the jail at Fairplay, Colorado. Early on the morning of April 28, 1880, a mob took him from the jail and lynched him, according to a brief wire dispatch in the Memphis Daily Appeal. An account in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union, published the next day, describes the same lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reporting of the 1880 wire report (Sacramento Daily Record-Union) (reporters).