Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three unnamed men were held at a jail when a mob took them out and hanged them near a railroad bridge one morning, according to a 1910 newspaper profile of a candidate for Congress. The article gives no date for the killings and does not name the jail or the town where it stood. It does not say whether the sheriff or jailers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: 1910 newspaper profile of a congressional candidate (reporters).