Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of five men held in the jail at Versailles, Indiana, was taken from it by a mob and killed, according to a brief domestic news item in the Houston Daily Post of September 16, 1897. He was held in that jail when the mob took him. The death was carried out by hanging, as the report states.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.