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. According to the Huntsville Gazette, the mob took one of those men outside and hanged him from a tree.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report