Lloyd Warner
Lloyd Warner was being held in the Buchanan County jail in St. Joseph, Missouri, in November 1933. A mob of about 9,000 people took him from the jail, beat him, hanged him and burned his body in a bonfire near the building. Sheriff Otto Theisen and his deputies, along with police and National Guard tank crews, held back the crowd for about two hours until the gas supply ran out, and then the sheriff handed the prisoner over. Authorities did not interfere with the mob afterward.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 9,000 took Lloyd Warner from the Buchanan County jail in St. Joseph, Missouri, beat him, hanged him and burned his body.
Reported by: Sheriff Otto Theisen's office, Buchanan County, Missouri (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.