Died in jail or a lockup
Samuel Johnson (alias "Mingo Jack")
Samuel Johnson left a family, and the paper noted that he had once been a successful jockey. He was held in the village jail at Eatontown, New Jersey, when, around midnight in March 1886, a group of masked men surrounded the jail, took him out and hanged him from the jail door. The coroner found that he died of strangulation rather than a gunshot. The newspaper reported that the mob left no clues behind, and that the jail's guards gave no account of resisting.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The coroner found he died of strangulation rather than a gunshot, and the account says a masked mob took him from the village jail at Eatontown and hanged him from the jail door.
Reported by: the coroner.