Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In November 1871, The Home Journal reported that a band of about fifty masked men took a Black man from an Indiana jail, along with two other Black men, and hanged him. The mob carried the three men a mile or so from town before hanging them. The paper did not name the men and said only that it happened 'the other day' before publication.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Home Journal (reporters).