Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four men held in a jail in an Indiana village were taken from their cells at midnight by a vigilance committee and hanged from a tree, according to The Evening Telegraph, published December 12, 1868. The committee had reportedly met secretly the night before to consider hanging them. The men were held in the jail, and the mob took them from there and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.