Died in jail or a lockup
Jesse Reno
Jessie Reno was one of four men held at the New Albany jail in Indiana in 1893, after being moved there from Seymour to protect them from a mob, according to newspaper accounts. Those accounts say a crowd of nearly a thousand people attacked the jail for about four hours. The mob broke through to the cells, took the four men out and hanged them from a telegraph pole.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of nearly a thousand attacked the New Albany jail for about four hours, took the prisoners from their cells and hanged them from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: news reports.