Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Ogden, Utah, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal of August 28, 1883. The item gives no name for him. It does not say whether the jail staff resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief newspaper item reports that a mob took a man from the Ogden, Utah jail and hanged him.
Reported by: news reports.