Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Ryner

A man named Ryner was taken from a jail and hanged, according to a one-line item in the Evening Bulletin of August 24, 1882. The item names no one who took him from the jail and gives no details of how the hanging was carried out.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A one-line 1882 newspaper item says Ryner was taken from a jail and hanged, without giving details of how it happened.

Reported by: 1882 newspaper item (reporters).

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