Died in jail or a lockup
John Green
The Eureka Daily Sentinel reported in July 1877 that about 50 men took John Green from the Randolph County jail one night and hanged him. The report gives no details of how the group got in. A separate report in the Narragansett Herald, published July 21, 1877, described a man named Green who was taken from the sheriff's hands at Roanoke, Missouri, by a party of fifty men, who hanged him from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A party of about fifty men took John Green from the jail and hanged him, according to an 1877 newspaper report.
Reported by: news reports.