Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Rushfield jail in Rushfield, Indiana, was taken from it on June 26, 1875, when a mob of about 160 masked men broke the jail open and hanged him. A brief telegram report published the next day in the Memphis Daily Appeal gives his death as a lynching from custody and records the method as hanging. The man is not named in that account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper telegram report.