Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man aged fifty-five was burned to death in the jail at Jacksonville, Oregon, according to a brief item in the Fisherman & Farmer in July 1889. He was not named in that report. He died in the jail where he was being held.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. A brief newspaper item reports that he burned to death in the Jacksonville, Oregon jail but gives no account of how the fire started.
Reported by: brief newspaper item.