Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died July 19, 1903 · Big Horn County Jail, Big Horn County, Wyoming

A man named Walters was held in the Big Horn County jail in Basin, Wyoming, when a mob broke into the jail in the early hours of July 19, 1903. The mob took him from his cell and shot him to death. He died while in the custody of the county jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke into the Big Horn County jail at Basin, Wyoming, and shot the man in his cell.

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