Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An American Indian man, whose name was not given in the report, was held in a jail in Washington State when a mob took him out on Thursday night, January 8, 1891, and killed him, according to a dispatch from Olympia published in the New-York Tribune on January 12, 1891. The dispatch links the killing to the death of a freighter in Okanogan County, the earlier event that the reports tie to the lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.