Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob of citizens took a man from the jail on the night of June 4, 1879, and hanged him in the public square alongside another man. The Public Ledger reported that the bodies were still hanging the next morning. The man was held at the jail when the mob took him, and he was killed there in the square, not in the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took the man from the jail and hanged him in the public square, according to the 1879 newspaper account.
Reported by: news reports.