Name not reported

Four men held in a jail in an Indiana village were taken from their cells at midnight on December 11, 1868, by a vigilance committee and hanged from a tree. The committee had met secretly the night before to consider hanging them. The men were not named in the account.

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

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Evening Telegraph, December 12, 1868, page 8 The Evening Telegraph, December 12, 1868