Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An armed mob of about twenty-five men from Union County broke into a jail on or about April 11, 1887, and shot to death a man held in his cell, according to a brief item in The Sun dated April 13, 1887. The man's name and the exact jail are not legible in the garbled text of the item. The item does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.