Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A crowd attacked the town calaboose in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1884, where four men were being held, and took one of them out and hanged him at the edge of town, according to the Mohave County Miner. The paper reports that officers tried unsuccessfully to quiet the crowd. The man's name is not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.