Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man and his son were held in the jail at Electric in August 1899. According to an Associated Press dispatch published in The Daily Journal, a mob broke into the jail, took the two men and lynched them. The dispatch names neither man. The two men were killed in the custody of the jail and its staff.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Associated Press dispatch reports that a mob lynched a man and his son after taking them from a jail.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).