Died in jail or a lockup
Seymour Newland
Seymour Newland, a Black man, was held in the local calaboose at Rushsylvania, Logan County, Ohio, in April 1894. According to a Cleveland dispatch reprinted in the Griggs Courier, a crowd gathered around the building, and the sheriff, who had come from Bellefontaine to take charge of him, could not persuade the crowd to give him up. The dispatch says a posse was summoned and a militia company was sent for. It reports that a mob then hanged Seymour Newland.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cleveland dispatch reprinted in the Griggs Courier reports that a mob hanged him after the sheriff could not get the crowd to give him up.
Reported by: Cleveland dispatch reprinted in Griggs Courier (reporters).