Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob broke in the door of an Iowa jail, where a man was being held, and took him out and hanged him from a tree. The Tacoma Times, reporting the killing in July 1910, linked it to his appeal to the state supreme court. The paper said the appeal had angered local residents. The report gives no account of how jail staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.