Died in custody
Name not reported
Two men being moved for safekeeping to St. Albans, West Virginia, were taken from the officers escorting them by a mob and killed, according to a May 1884 report in The Magnolia Gazette. Neither man is named in the account, and their ages and backgrounds are not given. The report places the killings in April 1884 and does not describe how the officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reporting in the historical account.