Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Ten men were being held in a local jail in February 1871 when, the New York Herald reported, about forty masked horsemen came for them in the night. The paper said a mob took the men from the jail and hanged six of them. The Herald gave no names for the six men who were killed, so this account describes the group of men held there at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New York Herald reported that masked horsemen took the man from the jail at night and hanged him.
Reported by: New York Herald (reporters).