Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died July 1812 · Baltimore

A man whose name is illegible in the surviving copy of a letter printed in the Kentucky Gazette was among those killed when a mob broke into the Baltimore jail in July 1812. According to the letter, the men had given themselves up to civil authority before the mob attacked them. The letter does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed over the keys.

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

Reported by: Kentucky Gazette letter (reporters).

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