Died in jail or a lockup

Jones

died July 6, 1892 · Lewis County Sheriff, Lewis County, West Virginia

Jones was held in the jail at Weston, West Virginia, when a mob took him from the jail early on Wednesday morning, July 6, 1892, and hanged him, according to the Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle. Nothing else about Jones is reported.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle, July 7, 1892, page 3 Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle, July 7, 1892

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