Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in an Iowa jail was taken from his cell by a mob on the night of January 9, 1907, and hanged. The mob broke in and took him from the jail, and the account says nothing about how the jail's staff responded. The man's name cannot be read in the surviving text, so his family and the details of his life are unknown. His death was a lynching carried out while the state held him in custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.