Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

One of 3 people whose names were not reported

died July 19, 1859 · Saline County, Missouri

A person held in the jail at Marshall, Missouri, was taken from the jail by a mob and burned to death on July 19, 1859, according to a St. Louis dispatch printed in the Richmond Enquirer on July 22, 1859. The mob took them from the jail, where they had been held in custody. The mob burned them to death, and the account names the crowd only as a mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: St. Louis dispatch reprinted in the Richmond Enquirer (reporters).

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