Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in an unnamed town's jail was taken by a mob in March 1895 and hanged from a tree, according to a scanned 1895 newspaper item. The item's opening is cut off, so the person's name and the town cannot be recovered from this text. Who the person was, and what the mob did at the jail, are not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.