Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men held in the jail at Augusta, Arkansas, were taken from it by a mob, according to a news dispatch published in the Arizona Weekly Citizen on February 6, 1881. The dispatch says the mob hanged the three men on the Wednesday night before the report and threw their bodies into the river. The men are not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch reports that a mob took three men from the Augusta, Arkansas jail, hanged them and threw their bodies into the river.
Reported by: news dispatch.