Died in jail or a lockup
Oscar M. Garrett
Oscar M. Garrett was held at a jail when a mob took him from custody and killed him, according to a report in The Indianapolis Journal of August 10, 1892. The paper says he had earlier been tried and acquitted in a case connected to the shooting of John M. Walton, and that he was awaiting a further court date when he was seized. The account of his death is brief and gives no detail of the jail or the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched