Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail in an Illinois town was taken out by a mob of country people on November 30, 1868, and hanged, according to a Missouri Democrat dispatch printed in the New Orleans Republican on December 4, 1868. His name is garbled in the newspaper text and cannot be read. The dispatch describes the hanging but not how the mob got into the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Missouri Democrat dispatch (reporters).