Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of Friday, June 23, 1876, a crowd broke into the jail at Robinson, Illinois, took a man from his cell and hanged him, according to a brief telegraph report in the New-York Tribune. The report gives no name or age for him. It does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the crowd, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: telegraph report.