Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Ullery

died 1874 · Champaign County, Ohio

A man named Ullery was held in the jail at Urbana, Ohio, according to a Richmond Dispatch report published in 1897 that places the events about twenty-three years earlier, around 1874. The article says a mob broke open the jail door and the sheriff surrendered the keys, and that the mob then took Ullery to the courthouse yard and lynched him. The article gives no further details about him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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