Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men held in the jail at Audubon, Iowa, were taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a Huntsville Gazette report published in February 1885. The jail was responsible for holding them, and the mob took them from its custody. The men's lives and the circumstances of their deaths are recorded in that single newspaper account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.