Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In November 1867, according to a short dispatch from Indianapolis, a mob took one of two people held at the jail in Greenwood, Indiana, and hanged them. The dispatch does not give this person's name, age or sex, and says nothing about who they were. It is not known from this account whether jail staff resisted the mob or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.