Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Charleston, Illinois, was taken from the jail by a mob in February 1856 and hanged, according to a brief New Orleans Daily Crescent report published on February 29 of that year. It does not say whether the jail's staff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over. The hanging by the mob is the only account of his death that the source gives.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched