Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1912, a man held in the county jail at Joppa, near Rosebud, Montana, was taken from the jail by a crowd of masked men, who killed him. The sheriff and his deputy tried to stop the mob. The Bisbee Daily Review, in a year-end list, counted his death among the lynchings of 1912.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.