Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail in an Iowa county was taken out by an armed group of unidentified men and hanged, according to an 1877 newspaper item published in the Macon Beacon. His name and the county are garbled in the scanned text. The item attributes the killing to the group that seized him, and does not describe how the jail's officers responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.