Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail in St. Paul, Minnesota, was taken from it in 1882 when a mob broke the building open, according to a June 1882 Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer editorial on lynch law. The mob hanged him. The editorial gives no name, age or other details about him, and it does not say whether jail staff resisted, gave up keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper editorial.