Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in an Ohio jail was taken from it by a group of farmers in late September 1875 and hanged, according to the New York Herald, which reported the killing on September 30. The paper later said he was innocent of the crime he had been held for. The Herald condemned the lynching as lawless and said that people who take the law into their own hands often hang the wrong man.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New York Herald reported that a group of farmers took a man from an Ohio jail and hanged him.
Reported by: New York Herald (reporters).