Died in jail or a lockupUnder 18
Name not reported
A thirteen-year-old boy was held in a jail in Wisconsin when, according to the American Citizen, a Mississippi newspaper that reported the case in October 1868, a mob took him from the jail, dragged him to a tree and hanged him. The paper said life had already left him before the mob staged a mock hanging of his body. The account was printed in an editorial against mob violence.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Mississippi paper reported that a mob took a thirteen-year-old boy from a Wisconsin jail, dragged him to a tree and hanged him.
Reported by: The American Citizen (reporters).