Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Urbana, Ohio jail was taken from the jail by a mob of masked men on the morning of January 17, 1875, and hanged from a tree in front of the Court House, according to the Alexandria Gazette. The Interior Journal later reported a hanging from a tree in the court-house yard by masked men in the same month, and it does not give his name. His name is not clearly recorded in the available accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.