Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from it by a crowd of about 200 people, according to a Windsor correspondent's letter reprinted in The Commonwealth in April 1883. The crowd took him in the days before that report. He was found the next morning, hanging, after a mob had killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Windsor correspondent's letter, reprinted in The Commonwealth, says a crowd of about 200 took a man from a jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Windsor correspondent's letter, as reprinted in The Commonwealth (reporters).