Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Ellensburg jail in Washington was taken from the jail by a mob in August 1895 and hanged, according to a report in the Birmingham Age-Herald published August 15, 1895. The paper says the sheriff made a strong effort to save him and his father, but the mob was too strong for him to stop. Within an hour of the son's hanging, the same mob took the father from the jail and hanged him beside his son. The newspaper account is the only source for these events, and it is a historical report, so details may not be complete.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The sheriff made a strong effort to save the man, but a mob took him from the Ellensburg jail and hanged him.
Reported by: news reports.