Died in prison
Name not reported
A Black man held at the Wyoming penitentiary in Rawlins died in September 1912. According to a dispatch from Rawlins dated October 14 and published in The Sun, other prisoners at the penitentiary lynched him. The dispatch reports that the prisoners then obtained the cell keys. It links the killing to a mass escape attempt that followed.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. A newspaper dispatch from Rawlins, Wyo., reported that fellow convicts lynched the man at the Wyoming penitentiary.
Reported by: newspaper report (dispatch from Rawlins, Wyo., Oct. 14) (reporters).