Died in jail or a lockup
Reddy Wilson
Wilson was held in the jail at Missouri Valley, Iowa, in early May 1894. Newspaper reports say about 100 men, some of them masked, gathered around midnight, broke into the jail and took him from it. The mob hanged him from the steps of the City Hall in the early morning hours of May 1.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report.