Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief item in the Litchfield Enquirer of July 23, 1868, a mob took three people from the jail in Brownstown, Indiana, and hanged them. The second of the three was among those killed, and the item gives no names, ages, or dates. The jail was the place of custody from which the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.