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In July 1883 the New-York Tribune reported, in a brief editorial comment on lynchings, that a mob took two people from a jail in Iowa and hanged them. The jail was holding both people when the mob seized them and killed them. The killings were a mob's act, carried out after the two were taken from the jail's custody.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New-York Tribune reports that a mob took two people from an Iowa jail and hanged them.

Reported by: New-York Tribune (reporters).

Source

• New-York Tribune, July 4, 1883, page 4 New-York Tribune, July 4, 1883