Died in jail or a lockup
St. Martin
St. Martin was held in the St. Charles Court House jail in Louisiana. On September 14, 1878, according to the Evening Star, a mob of perhaps one to two hundred people broke open the jail, took him out and shot him many times. The article says he was the son of a district attorney and a former deputy sheriff, and that he had been arrested after a deadly disturbance at a store in the town. The rest of the account turns on what the jail's staff did when the mob came.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke open the St. Charles Court House jail, took St. Martin out and shot him many times.
Reported by: news reports.