Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed man was one of five men held in the jail at Versailles, Indiana, who were taken from it and hanged, as reported in The Houston Daily Post in September 1897. A mob took him from the jail where he was being held and hanged him. The reported account gives no name or age for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: a single line in the paper's domestic news column (reporters).