Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Oxford, Indiana, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a brief national news item printed in a North Carolina weekly in November 1883. The item gives only a first name and no exact date. It does not say whether the jailer or officers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: North Carolina weekly newspaper item (reporters).