Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from the guards watching over him by about one hundred armed men on a Sunday morning, according to an unnamed informant's account printed in the Washington Telegraph and repeated by the Morning Republican in January 1872. The men hanged him from a tree about a mile and a half from where the crime was said to have occurred. The account says the guards went into hiding rather than stand against the crowd. It says he was drawn up about fifteen feet and choked to death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed informant told the Washington Telegraph that about one hundred armed men took him from his guards and hanged him, and that the guards had to hide.
Reported by: unnamed informant, as reported in the Washington Telegraph (reporters).