Tungate
Tungate was being taken back to prison after being subpoenaed as a witness at a court appearance, travelling in carriages with another man. At night, according to a newspaper account reprinted from the New Albany Ledger, a mob stopped the carriages at a bridge, seized Tungate and hanged him. The next morning his body was still at the bridge, awaiting his friends, and the account says no one seemed willing to remove it. A coroner held an inquest into the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob stopped the carriages carrying Tungate back to prison after a court appearance, seized him at a bridge at night and hanged him, according to a reprinted New Albany Ledger account; a coroner held an inquest.
Reported by: New Albany Ledger (reprinted account) (reporters); county coroner.