Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
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. The man's name is not recorded, and the newspaper account gives no other details about him. The mob took him from the custody of the jail, which the state was responsible for protecting him in.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.