Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from the cell by a mob during the night in June 1901, according to a 1901 newspaper account. The account says the sheriff tried to resist the mob but was overpowered, and that the man was killed by gunfire. The name, location and other details could not be reliably read from the garbled text of the archived page, so little else about who he was can be given here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sun's 1901 account says a mob took the man from the jail and killed him by gunfire.
Reported by: The Sun (1901 newspaper account) (reporters).