Died in custody
Mart Crawford
Mart Crawford was a widower who worked as a section foreman on the Missouri Pacific railroad. In July 1896, while Sheriff Lumpce was taking him by road in Missouri, an unmasked mob met them, took him from the sheriff and hanged him from a tree. The site was a few miles from the town the newspaper's text reads as Tepton.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Historical newspaper report (Chronicling America, OCR text) (reporters).