Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Perham jail in Minnesota was taken from it on June 8, 1882, by about twenty men. The men hanged him from a ladder raised against a telegraph pole. His name is not recorded in the account, which comes from a garbled newspaper page. The account describes him as a boy.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper report says about twenty men took him from the Perham jail and hanged him from a ladder raised against a telegraph pole.
Reported by: historical newspaper report (OCR copy) (reporters).