Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five people held in the jail at Versailles, Indiana, were taken from it by a crowd of citizens one night in September 1897 and hanged to a tree, according to a brief item in The Marietta Journal published on September 23, 1897. The paper does not name them or give their ages. The killings were reported as an example of lynching outside the South.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.