Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief item in the Cadiz Sentinel of December 16, 1868, a man held in an Illinois jail was taken from it by a crowd of his neighbors and hanged on December 14, 1868. The paper's text names him only in a garbled form, so his name cannot be given here. The item is a single short account from that year and does not say how the jail's staff responded to the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Cadiz Sentinel (reporters).