Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Gorman
Jim Gorman was being held in the Big Horn County jail in Basin, Wyoming, when he died on July 19, 1903. According to The Birmingham Age-Herald, about fifty masked men fired into the jail and battered down its doors. Gorman was struck by five bullets, was left for dead, and lingered until that forenoon before he died. The 1903 newspaper account is the only source available for these details.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.