John Turley
John Turley was held in the jail at Bedford, Indiana, in May 1893. According to the San Antonio Daily Light, a mob of about a hundred men took him from the jail in the early morning of May 15, and the sheriff gave up the keys before the mob hanged him in the jail yard. The Semi-Weekly Interior Journal reported that he was hanged from a tree after being taken from the jail by a mob. The Port Gibson Reveille described masked men taking him from the jail and lynching him, and whether jailers resisted is reported differently or not at all across these accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about a hundred men took John Turley from the Bedford, Indiana jail and hanged him in the jail yard after the sheriff gave up the keys.
Reported by: news reports.