Died in jail or a lockup
One of 3 people whose names were not reported
Three Black people held in the jail at Marshall, Missouri, were taken from the jail by a mob in July 1859, according to a St. Louis report reprinted in the Daily Dispatch. The report says the mob hanged two of them and burned the third. A later report from the St. Louis Bulletin, also in the Daily Dispatch, says the mob took the third man held there and burned him. None of the three is named in these accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A St. Louis Bulletin dispatch reported that a mob of eight to nine hundred broke into the Marshall jail, drove off the sheriff and jailers, and hanged men taken from it.
Reported by: St. Louis Bulletin dispatch (reporters).