Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three people held in the jail at Russell, Kansas, were taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a January 1894 newspaper dispatch. The dispatch gives no names for them. It does not describe how the mob entered the jail or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed the three people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.