Pierre Provost
Pierre Provost was a farm hand who was being held in a jail in Vincennes, Indiana, when he died on October 26, 1878. A New York dispatch printed in the Republican Journal said he was found hanged in his cell and that he took his own life. The same dispatch said a crowd would likely have taken him from the jail and hanged him had he not done so. The account is brief and gives no further details of how the death happened or what staff did before or after it.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A New York dispatch and a Vincennes, Indiana dispatch both report that he took his own life by hanging in his jail cell.
Reported by: New York dispatch published in the Republican Journal (reporters); special dispatch from Vincennes, Ind., as printed in the Republican Journal (reporters).