Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a headline in The Bolivar Bulletin published April 17, 1896, a mob of masked men took a person from a jail and hanged them. The person was being held at that jail when the masked men came for them. The paper attributes the death to the mob, and it is recorded here as a death in custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.