Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Home Journal, about fifty masked men took three Black men from an Indiana jail in November 1871 and carried them a mile or so from town, where they hanged them. The newspaper, which reported the killings as having occurred 'the other day' before publication, named none of the three men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Home Journal (reporters).