Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in an Illinois jail was taken out by a mob, according to a 1902 newspaper account. The mob hanged him from a telegraph pole, but he slipped the noose and ran, and the mob caught up with him about two blocks from the jail and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief reprinted newspaper account says a mob took him from an Illinois jail, hanged him from a telegraph pole and then killed him about two blocks away.
Reported by: reprinted newspaper account.