Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Gazette, a man held in a Maryland jail was taken from the jail by a mob of about 30 men and hanged. The paper says the jail was an old building, that only one elderly man was watching it that night, and that the sheriff had taken no extra precautions although there had been talk of a lynching. The Gazette reports that the reason given for the killing was to spare the county the cost of a trial.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Gazette reported that a mob of about 30 men took a man from a Maryland jail and hanged him.
Reported by: The Gazette (reporters).