Jellerson
Jellerson was held in the jail at Audubon, Iowa, when a mob of about one hundred armed men battered down the jail walls before four in the morning in February 1885, according to a dispatch published in the St. Landry Democrat. The men dragged him out and hanged him on the grand stand in the public square. The sheriff was on the scene, and the dispatch says he could not stop the mob. Jellerson was killed while in the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Audubon, Iowa dispatch published in the St. Landry Democrat says a mob of about one hundred armed men battered down the jail walls, dragged him out and hanged him on the grand stand in the public square while the sheriff could not stop them.
Reported by: Audubon, Ia. dispatch published in the St. Landry Democrat (reporters).