John Martin
John Martin was held in the Danbury jail in February 1886, according to the Danbury Reporter, which relied on Rhodes, the officer left in charge of him. Men from Virginia came with papers to take him to the Rockingham jail, and the Reporter says about fifteen or twenty masked men seized him on the road, carried him to the Virginia line and hanged him. The Jasper Weekly Courier describes a mob at a jail in March 1886 that demanded the keys, and says the jail refused them, broke the doors, took John Martin out and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard. The Union County Courier reports that a mob took John Martin from the jail at Shoals, Indiana, in March 1886, and hanged him from a tree in front of the courthouse.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took John Martin from the jail and hanged him, according to the Danbury Reporter and an officer who had been in charge of the prisoner.
Reported by: The Danbury Reporter (reporters); Rhodes, the officer left in charge of the prisoner (the agency that held him).