Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1867 · Greenwood jail, Johnson County, Indiana

In November 1867, according to a short dispatch from Indianapolis printed in The South-Western, a mob took the second of two people held in the jail at Greenwood, Indiana, and hanged them. The dispatch gives no name for the person who was killed.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report