Name not reported

A man held in the Hardin County jail in Illinois was taken from it by a mob, according to a Chicago Times account reprinted in the Wyandot Pioneer in October 1866. The mob hurried him to an island in the Ohio River and hanged him there, and the account says his body was left hanging as a warning. The jail staff's response to the mob is not described in the account. The account gives no name for him and nothing about his family or life.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: The Chicago Times, as reprinted in The Wyandot Pioneer (reporters).

Source

• The Wyandot Pioneer, October 11, 1866, page 1 The Wyandot Pioneer, October 11, 1866