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One of 2 people whose names were not reported

died July 8, 1872 · Celina jail, Mercer County, Ohio

A dispatch datelined Cincinnati, reprinted in the Wilmington Daily Commercial on July 9, 1872, reports that a mob took men from the jail at Celina, Ohio, and hanged two of three men named in the garbled text. The names of those killed cannot be read in the surviving copy.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati dispatch reprinted in the Wilmington Daily Commercial says a mob hanged two men taken from the Celina, Ohio jail.

Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch reprinted in the Wilmington Daily Commercial (reporters).

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