Leo Heflin
Leo Heflin, 28, was held in the Warrenton jail in Fauquier County, Virginia, when he died on March 10, 1892. According to a single 1892 newspaper report, he and another man were being moved from the jail in a wagon, out of fear of violence, when about sixty men overtook them near Gainesville in Prince William County. The report says the guard was overpowered and the two men were hanged from a tree and shot. Only this one newspaper account is known to us, so the details of how the men were taken and killed are not confirmed by other sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about sixty men overtook Heflin and Joseph Dye while they were being moved from the Warrenton jail in a wagon, overpowered the guard, and hanged and shot them, according to a single 1892 newspaper report.
Reported by: news reports.