Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In February 1885, a mob broke into the jail at Audubon, Iowa, where three men were being held. The mob took the three men from the jail and hanged them. The men were held at the jail when they were taken, and the people who killed them were a mob, not officers of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.