Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is garbled in the surviving newspaper text was held in the jail at Fair Play, Colorado, when a mob took him out and lynched him. A Sacramento Daily Record-Union item published April 29, 1880 reports that the killing took place the day before, on April 28, 1880. The jail was the place that held him, and the mob reached him there and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union reported that a mob took a man from the Fair Play, Colorado jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union (reporters).