Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An 84-year-old man died on April 21, 1882, while being taken from the Kittanning jail in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, to a train for transfer to the penitentiary. The Juniata Sentinel and Republican reported that he swallowed poison he had carried in a small phial, and that he died within minutes of boarding the train while in an officer's care. The paper described the death as a suicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide
Reported by: news reports.