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