Died in jail or a lockup
Peter Lonin
According to a dispatch datelined Wetumpa, Alabama, and published in the Akron Daily Democrat on August 22, 1899, Peter Lonin was killed in August 1899 after a mob of masked men took him from a jail. The dispatch says his son was killed with him. Peter was held at the jail when the masked men came for him, and the dispatch reports that the mob took both of them from the jail and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch datelined Wetumpa, Alabama, reports that a mob of masked men took Peter Lonin and his son from a jail and killed them.
Reported by: news reports.