Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two young men held in the Waverly jail in Lafayette County, Missouri, were taken out by a mob after midnight, according to a June 1883 newspaper dispatch. The dispatch says the mob broke the jail doors with sledges after the sheriff refused to give up the keys. The men were then led about three quarters of a mile from town and hanged from a tree. Their names are not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that a mob broke into the Waverly jail, took two young men and hanged them from a tree.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.