Name not reported

A man held at a local lockup, identified only as Jim, was taken from the building by a crowd of about twenty men, according to an eyewitness account published in The Sun on December 5, 1880. The account says the guards told the crowd they did not have the keys, and the crowd broke the door open with an axe. The men hanged him from a beam over the sidewalk, and the account says the hanging continued for nearly an hour before a photograph was taken of the group.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of about twenty men broke into the lockup with an axe and hanged him, after guards said they did not have the keys.

Reported by: the article's eyewitness narrator (witnesses).

Source

• The Sun, December 5, 1880, page 3 The Sun, December 5, 1880