Died in custody
James Dillard
James Dillard was held in the custody of the sheriff and deputies at Sullivan, Indiana, after being brought there from Illinois. On the evening of November 20, 1902, a mob of forty or fifty armed farmers took him from the officers and hanged him from a telegraph pole about a mile east of a farm near Sullivan. A news dispatch datelined Sullivan reported that the governor had ordered a militia company to protect him, but the order arrived too late.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch datelined Sullivan, Ind. says a mob of forty or fifty armed farmers took James from the sheriff and deputies and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: news dispatch datelined Sullivan, Ind. (reporters).