Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Versailles, Indiana, was one of five men a mob took from the jail and hanged, according to a brief report in the Houston Daily Post of September 16, 1897. The account gives no name or age for him. It does not say how the mob reached the men or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.