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 the week before September 23, 1897, and hanged to a tree. The Marietta Journal reported the killings in a brief item in its September 23, 1897 issue.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.