Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1884 · Barber County, Kansas

In May 1884, a mob forced the doors of the jail at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where four men were being held, and took one of them outside and hanged him from a tree.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report