Tim Boyd

Tim Boyd was held at the jail in Moore's Hill, Indiana, in 1877, when a mob came to the jail and shot him. The Hocking Sentinel, writing in September 1897, recalled the killing as having happened twenty years earlier. The article described it as the only other mob killing at that jail in the county's history.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1897 newspaper account recalls that a mob visited the jail and shot Tim Boyd, who was held there.

Reported by: newspaper account.

Source

• The Hocking Sentinel, September 23, 1897, page 3 The Hocking Sentinel, September 23, 1897