Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Joseph Lytic

died March 31, 1892 · Hancock County, Ohio

Joseph Lytic was held in the jail at Findlay, Ohio, when a mob took him from it on a Thursday morning in March 1892 and lynched him, according to a brief item in the Weekly Courier-Journal published April 4, 1892. The death is recorded as a homicide by mob.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report