Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A third person was among three people taken from the jail in Brownstown, Indiana, by a mob and hanged, according to a one-line item in the Litchfield Enquirer on July 23, 1868. The item gives no names, ages, or exact date of death. It does not say whether the jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the prisoners over, and the account is the only one of the death located so far.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.