Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died 1906 · Springfield, Missouri

In 1906 a mob broke into the jail in Springfield, Missouri, and took three people who were being held there. The mob hanged them in the public square, and their bodies were afterward destroyed in a bonfire. Their deaths are recorded as homicides carried out by a mob.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report