Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five people held at the jail in Versailles, Indiana, were taken from it by a crowd of citizens one night in the week before the Marietta Journal printed its account on September 23, 1897. The crowd hanged all five from a tree. Each was killed while in the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.