John Long
According to a 1908 Rock Island Argus account, John Long was held at the jail on the alley behind the Woodmen building on Fifteenth Street in Davenport, Iowa. In October 1843 he was taken from that jail and hanged on a scaffold on the prairie near Third Avenue, along with two other men. The paper says the sheriff escorted the men to the scaffold and that Long pushed back his hood to look for companions who had promised to rescue him. The article reports that no one came.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The sheriff escorted Long and two other men from the Davenport jail to a scaffold on the prairie, where they were hanged after no one came to rescue them.
Reported by: sheriff. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.